Word: dialectician
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...underline that friendship between the U.S. and China was to be consummated while Mao was still alive. As we headed for the easy chairs, he said: "I don't look bad, but God has sent me an invitation." Somehow it did not seem incongruous that the dialectician of materialism should invoke the Deity. No being of lesser rank could presume to interrupt the Chairman's labors. Even more striking was the casualness with which Mao treated the imminent end of his rule and hinted at the urgency to complete certain business...
...Army, which desolates Barbara. He then invites everyone to his munitions plant, where the workers dwell in a model city. From generation to generation the Undershaft inheritance can only go to a foundling, and Cusins qualifies. Moralistically sniffish, Cusins resists Undershaft's blandishments until the cagey old dialectician storms, "Dare you make war on war?" Cusins succumbs, vowing to arm the common man against "the lawyers, the doctors, the literary men, the politicians, who, once in authority, are more disastrous and tyrannical than all the fools, rascals and impostors...
...fourteen, was a pacifist who was revolted by his experiences in the trenches of World War I. Radicals praised Dos Passos as the greatest American novelist of the age for his naturalistic writing and attention to social evils. James Burnham, an aristocratic graduate of Princeton, was a coldly analytical dialectician who became a leader of the party's Trotskyist faction...
...January 1970, George Jackson and two other blacks, Fleeta Drumgo and John Clutchette, were charged with the murder of John Mills, a guard at the state prison in Soledad, Calif. Jackson had already spent ten years in prison for a $70 robbery; there he turned into a skillful revolutionary dialectician and a leader of Soledad's militant black inmates. The 1970 indictments made him a radical hero, and the three became known as the Soledad Brothers...
Although seemingly more of a black militant than a dialectician, Angela never made a secret of her Communist Party membership. She proclaimed it during her recent assistant professorship in philosophy at U.C.L.A., which led the university's board of regents to refuse renewal of her contract last year. Still, when Angela disappeared after the courthouse kidnaping, her Communist affiliation appeared unimportant...