In both cases, the involvement of the young intellectual elite served to grab public attention.
Even so, his ascendancy puts his country on the cusp of an unusual moment, in some ways a throwback to the era of the dashing Pierre Trudeau, another smart-set intellectual who served as prime minister.
The public man hailed in one decade as a pioneer neo-con intellectual would serve in the next as the fierce centrist counterpuncher warning of the social havoc implicit in the Reagan era's budget policies.
Perhaps intellectual memory serves some purposes and bodily memory serves others.
And what these hundred or so pages have to offer is the thinnest of intellectual gruel, served up with highly questionable judgment.
Williams' willful indifference to such intellectual conceits serves to make it sexier.
The proper way to live a good Christian life, morally and intellectually, is to engage one's intellect, "the greatest advantage of thinking is yet behind, that it improves our Morals as well as our Intellectuals; and serves to make us Better, as well as Wiser" (Miscellanies 151).
As an inventor, electrical engineer and patent attorney, Mr. Olcott founded, and tirelessly served as CEO to Olcott International and Company, a pioneer and global leader in the patent annuity payment and trademark renewal industry, serving the intellectual property profession.
Truman thought there was one person who could unite the Party: Adlai Stevenson, an up-and-coming Midwesterner with an intellectual bent who was serving his first term as governor of Illinois.
The dean of the business school, Lord Currie, said: "At Cass, we see ourselves as serving the intellectual needs of the City so expanding eastwards to Docklands is a natural, and necessary, next step for the school as the demand for our courses increases".
