The Rhodes scholarship, perhaps the highest prize for young American scholars, finances postgraduate study at Oxford University for 32 students a year who, in the words of the Rhodes Trust, embody "excellence in qualities of mind and qualities of person".
"His greatest qualities as president," Goldstein says, "are his quality of mind and his quality of judgment — his dispassionate ability to analyze a situation.
Unfortunately, neither his experience nor his theory equipped him to solve the new problems facing him; and he lacked the qualities of mind and character to supply the deficiency.
With their outer beauty hidden from view what is exposed instead is their mind and inner qualities and so in any interaction with men they are valued not just for how they look.
That pitch, advocating "talented individuals available for hire," Mr. Holmes says, subsequently evolved to the idea of a "knowledge economy" and then to "the Irish mind" and its qualities of "creativity, open-mindedness and curiosity" as part of an initiative to establish "what is unique about the Irish, what can't people copy about the Irish".
Kīnaʻu was considered to be a promising young man with an extremely bright mind and leadership qualities.
"I just happen to think that General Clark is the logical candidate for me to endorse because I honestly believe he's the best qualified person, both in mind, which is a brilliant, brilliant mind, and in the quality of his character and his emotional makeup".
I also predict that the surprise side effect of employing his strategies for more mindful communication will result in more happiness, peace of mind, and a richer quality of life.
In that context, the MacFarlane book is very much in an established tradition of milking a last few bucks from your project, and never mind the quality (and the consensus seems to be that his book is no good, not funny, and boring).
