Word: theoretician
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that at one point she broke down and cried. Other defendants seemed tired and worn from their long imprisonment. Two members of the Gang, Zhang Chunqiao and Wang Hongwen, had shaved heads. Two other defendants, including Chen Boda, 76, who had been Mao's personal secretary and a theoretician of the Cultural Revolution, had to be helped to their places before the bar by two guards...
...Reagan as President surround himself with a range of advisers who would temper his hawkish tendencies? The evidence is otherwise. His task forces drawing up foreign policy options include such hawkish advisers as William Van Cleave, a defense expert from the University of Southern California; Edward Luttwak, a leading theoretician of the right; and Richard Pipes, a Harvard history professor who is strongly anti-Soviet. Of late, he has been advised by more experienced and moderate voices as well, Henry Kissinger being a noteworthy example. But there is little doubt that Reagan would use U.S. military power abroad more aggressively...
...natural flights of human imagination," wrote Sam Johnson, "is not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope." Said Star Trek's point-eared theoretician, Mr. Spock: "You may find that having is not so pleasurable as wanting...
Carter was also eager to de-emphasize the Soviet-American relationship, which he felt had preoccupied postwar American diplomacy. His advisers encouraged him. Cyrus Vance is, by nature and by his legal training, a problem solver and a conciliator, a troubleshooter rather than a theoretician. His approach to huge, complex challenges has been to divide and conquer them one by one. He is uncomfortable with, and not very adept at, historical generalizations or global grand designs. Zbigniew Brzezinski, on the other hand, is a well-established, if somewhat controversial, geostrategist. He began talking of an "arc of crisis" around...