Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gorky in his few pages gives a master ful picture of the man Tolstoy as he saw him and knew him. It is always honest and sincere, a revelation, straight from the heart of the impression left by the overwhelming genius of Tolstoy upon a write and thinker of his own time and country...
...advise on the subject of editorials both from the theoretical point of view of a student of current events and from the practical point of view of a man who has himself written. Among the books which have established Professor Munro's position as a writer and a clear thinker are "The Government of European Cities", "The Government of American Cities", and "Principles and Methods of Municipal Administration...
...majority, compels my respect by the clearness with which he perceives that the "thousands, even millions" who venture from the good road trod by the respectable majority are "uneducated" and "unthinking". I even go with him in his implied belief that the word of a thinker is less likely to be taken as law by "near Americans" if he is incarcerated than if he is left at large. Admirable as Mr. Mason's scorn for those who, through the pardon of Gene Debs, might be encouraged to obstruct the prosecution of future wars; edifying is his stand in regard...
...deliberately plans to "put one over" on the Faculty is not the clear thinker. He is still immature, still the small boy with a spit-ball mania. To him, his teacher is some far-off monster forcing down his throat--teaching--something that he is convinced will do him no good. His imagination makes his deceitfulness seem clever and in his cleverness he loses sight of the fact that the teacher is not the person who is there to teach but the person from whom he can learn. Failure to learn on the part of the student is no loss...
...which England has treated the Irish question. The CRIMSON would be the last to hold a brief for the prolongation of the present unbearable situation. If Irish partizans, however, would receive in this country the protection of liberal laws, they must grant to the Loyal Coalitioner and the independent thinker the same freedom of expression for which they clamor. They must cease seeking to subvert the machinery of American government to the schemes of Irish separatism. They must abstain from the intimidation of voters and the baiting of public officers...