But the mainstream too often seems to be carved up between two conservative parties, led by people who are neither intellectually curious nor shaped by the great technological convulsions that have defined the past 25 years.
An expert on finance, he was no doubt intellectually confident about the shape of the deal required, and on such a technical question he was less disabled than usual by grim fears about the public's view.
Berkeley has made me who I am; it has shaped me intellectually, and it has enabled me to become the leader that I am.
Berkeley has made me who I am; it has shaped me intellectually, and it has enabled me to become the leader I am.
Both of the brothers saw Ralph as their "lodestar", but if he shaped them intellectually it seems to have been more by communicating a powerful sense of the importance of politics than by affecting the direction of their political thinking.
The world that Obama lived in and shaped him intellectually: the elite universities; his Hyde Park milieu (including his not-to-be-mentioned friends, William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn); the church he attended for two decades, ringing with sermons more virulently anti-American than anything heard in today's full-throated uprising of the Arab Street.
These multigenerational communities provide personal and enriching interactions that shape students both intellectually and socially, while providing a supportive and manageably-sized home inside a larger College and University.
This depicts Europe's universities from their beginnings, in the landscape that nurtured them and which they in turn shaped, as the inquiring, intellectually inventive element in a society otherwise authoritarian and hierarchical.
Philip's devotion to Barr and to MoMA helped shape the institution not only intellectually but physically.
He sought to examine how school and religion shaped him, both morally and intellectually.
One person not surprised is Joseph Horowitz, the studio's artistic adviser, who helps shape its programs and make them more intellectually coherent, adding commentaries and archival recordings.
