A freethinker, proto-feminist and believer in "war with inferior races" as essential to improving what eugenicists called the "human stock", he put the study of variation within populations, and correlations between characteristics, on a firm intellectual footing.
Founded by Stanford-educated neuroscience researcher Dan Chao and engineer Brett Wingeier along with Amol Sarva, a consumer mobile guru with oodles of hardware experience, the company is on solid intellectual footing.
He could read a situation with uncanny sagacity; his editor for many years, Paul Webster, recalled him as "a rare combination of intellectual and foot-in-the-door hack.
By movie's end, all the players are on the board, not just sadistic bullies and their shell-shocked victims, but treacherous intellectuals, mesmerized foot soldiers, resisters both wily and naïve and every shade of collaborator, from the maliciously active to the passively disengaged.
What with feminism, gay rights and all the other incursions into the world Mailer wanted to surround himself with, Lennon says he lost his intellectual and political footing.
What I seek to add to my work now is a richer historical context, a deeper intellectual and moral footing, and a sense of timelessness that is more meaningful than any empirical study.
He was an intellectual with his feet on the ground and his heart in the right place.
There's Josh, a diminutive, curly-haired academic, his six-foot, intellectual Amazon wife Caroline, and their ballet-loving daughter, who all live in a bus together, and there's Caroline's rebarbative mother; while over in Durban, there is Josh's former flame Harriet, a writer of ballet books for children, her domineering Boer husband, and their stroppy teenage daughter;.
At the same time he avoided meeting distinguished scholars with whom he might have discussed questions of economics and sociology on a footing of intellectual equality.
John Koza, the Stanford computer-science professor who invented N.P.V., spearheaded the research that put it on a sound intellectual, legal, and Constitutional footing, and has guided its legislative progress so far, has found an energetic and resourceful partner.
A few years ago in the United States, the National Science Foundation introduced the "broader impacts" criterion in evaluating its grant proposals, on an equal footing with "intellectual merit".
