Word: dialectician
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...important of all conflicts in the revolutionary movement; Stalin, the great organizer of defeats for the proletariat, who symbolizes National Socialism at the expense of the world proletariat and the world revolution, and Trotsky, who symbolizes revolutionary international socialism and the fight for world revolution. Even the most wily dialectician (and Comrades Editors, I have grave doubts that the second word in that description applies to you) could not reconcile these two diametrically opposed tenets of action...
...splendid teacher, an inspiring athletic coach, a distinguished orator and leader of his fellows in many fields, little was said in your account of his intellectual side. He is much more of a philosopher and poet than he is an athletic coach. He is an excellent dialectician, he can skillfully fence with the most subtle minds. Besides his coaching abilities he can sail a boat most excellently and talk Plato while doing so. He was a fine long-distance swimmer...
Next day the Tribune replied: "Mr. Bryan says we misrepresented him We'd regret that if it were true, but it isn't"-going on to accuse Mr. Bryan of using "the favorite trick of the political dialectician" and ending with the remark: "We are not quarreling with Mr. Bryan because he believes or disbelieves but because he wants laws to make other people do and think as he does...
...cowered, and feared to die... "Gloria Mundi" is Wordsworthian pantheism in minor, cunningly condensed in the expression, evoking thought, yet somehow rather clever than convincing. Lastly "Pandora Sings" exquisitely with perfect modulation, perfect phrasing, perfect key, yet is it carping?--behind the tragic mask I somehow feel the dialectician other than the suffering creature...