Word: theoretician
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Last week Hewish's receipt of that award became embroiled in a bitter controversy. At a press conference at Montreal's McGill University, Britain's Sir Fred Hoyle, a noted astronomer, theoretician, science fiction writer (The Black Cloud) and scientific gadfly, had charged that Hewish "pinched" the prize for himself by failing to give Jocelyn Bell proper credit. Asked by a reporter if he considered it a scientific injustice to leave Bell out of the award, Hoyle replied: "Yes, I think it was a scientific scandal of major proportions...
...That left the way open for the new journalism, which was a great revival of social realism and had therefore replaced the novel as the dominant literary art form of the modern age. All that was stated; what was implied, of course, was that Wolfe, as founder and chief theoretician of the new journalism, was a great and seminal artist...
...shelf of works that seek to outline a future consistently libertarian society. USC philosophy professor John Hospers, Ayn Rand, and Murray Rothbard are others who have written similar books. Many have hailed Rothbard's scholarly "For a New Liberty" as the libertarian manifesto and he has become the leading theoretician of the movement...
...government which rose from the ashes of the old Tsarist empire, whose first leader was an anti-imperialist theoretician, and whose ostensible goal was the liberation of the whole world, come in the year 1968 to be a symbol of ruthless repression and flagrant imperialism...
Although the F.L.Q. violence diminished after the government crackdown, separatism-and the problems that gave it birth-remained. Many French-speaking Quebeckers still saw themselves as what Separatist Theoretician Pierre Valliéres acidly calls "the white niggers of Canada." They are still paid less than English-speaking Canadians, in a province whose economy is controlled by English interests...