Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...observation. He also revealed an emotional and intellectual instability that became more apparent as he grew older. He attended Hiram College, a Campbellite institution, kept detailed diaries in which he developed grandiose poetic projects, studied the Bible and Poe, aspired to be both a major prophet and an independent thinker. Half-starved while attending an art institute in Chicago, he fled to New York, where he peddled his poems on the street at 2? apiece. Lonely, celibate, driven by feverish ambition, he tramped through the country, begging, sometimes reading and selling his poems, returned to Springfield where he published...
...mocker who delights in wild rant. Whether his thesis of iatrocracy was meant to be a colossal joke with which to fool members of his profession or whether he offered it in all earnestness with the idea that it would add to his stature as a world thinker he alone knew last week...
Student-Writer-Thinker-Scholar...
...such comments as in the long discussion of sex as a residue that fills a great part of Vol. II, irreverent readers may get more than a fleeting glimpse of a great thinker in his more human and homely role as a cranky old professor, may echo with amusement Translator Livingston's grave comment: "In his treatment of the sex residue Pareto is less objective than is his wont...
Most interesting to the serious thinker will be the thesis, which the author develops subtly but with telling effect, as to the hypocrisy in the relations between the Powers because of the League's existence. Certainly the League is fighting a losing battle in trying to keep its head above water in an era so nationalistic as ours. Mr. Gathorne-Hardy has so completely lost faith in the League as an instrument for maintaining peace, that in attempting to appraise the situation in his last paragraph, he cannot even mention it by name...