Word: knower
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dead, I still believe in God!' Whap! I was back." He started hollering hallelujahs, and the people in his dressing room "looked at me like I was crazy. Maybe I did look crazy; all I know is since that day I wasn't a believer, I was a knower. Hallelujah, I'm saved! In all my wildest imagination I never thought up nothing like that. I sure didn't want to be no preacher 'cause that was the lowdownest thing in the world...
Perry used the vernacular "bull" to describe a style where one analyzes a problem and thinks constructively about it's purpose even though one is short of facts. Perry called the answers that the "fact knower" writes in his bluebook "cow" answers--lists of appropriate facts which just don't add up. Perry's metaphors of cow and bull may help to characterize approaches you used when writing in bluebooks. The true "a" comes with the integration of cow and bull answers...
...often painful. His younger brother Kenneth, with whom he was very close, was killed in World War I, and MacLeish lost two sons, one as an infant and the other as a young man to cancer. But everything in these letters bears witness that he was nevertheless a great knower and lover of life, and that he believed this to be the root of his art. He writes his student Ilona Karmel that "heart alone has never made an artist as the sugary wrecks of millions upon millions of poems and paintings and works of music testify. But without heart...