Word: theorists
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Shklar, an eminent political theorist, spent two days at the Concord (N.H.) Hospital and was transferred to Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston on Sunday because of the seriousness of her condition...
...THEORIST. Stephen Hawking is one of the physicists who made important contributions to this theory. In 1988 he published A Brief History of Time, a worldwide best seller that attempted to explain this idea in layman's language and show how it might describe both the origins and the end of the universe. His millions of readers may not have fully comprehended his ideas, but all of us did come to understand Hawking as a brave and inspiring figure. Stricken with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease), he is completely immobilized, uses a wheelchair and can speak only...
THEORIZING THE THEORIST. Watching Errol Morris' brilliant film, one begins to perceive a powerful analogy between Hawkings condition and the thrust of % his thought. His disease seems to have affected him much as loss of energy affects a failing star. The bright and unfocused young man described in the film by witnesses to his early days has in effect collapsed in upon himself, his spirit concentrating on the one small area of his body that continues to function perfectly -- his brain. His thought has achieved a remarkable density, and he has become a singularity almost as unimaginable as the astrophysical...
While most academics fill their books with arcane reference and convoluted lingo, hooks is fresh, direct and comprehensible; she is probably the only feminist theorist and cultural critic who quotes Marvin Aye often as Michel Foucault...
...very good theorist," he said of Maskin...