Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...perhaps Eric Johnston's critics miss his true significance and value. He lays no claim to being a thinker. "You go around talking to people, experiencing new sights and sounds," he says, "and you polish yourself like the facets of a diamond." Eric Johnston is pre-eminently a middleman-a middleman of ideas, a believer in the middle of the road. As such he gets top marks...
...marks a major event in U.S. cultural history. For George Santayana, author of 23 books that have been authoritatively described as the most exquisite philosophical literature ever composed, is the first U.S. thinker whose work and life link the cultures of North and South America and interweave them with the old romantic culture of Spain. Readers may make their own decisions as to how important that work is now. But ever since Longfellow mastered Spanish, since Irving wrote his studies of old Spain, and tireless Prescott, grey, half-blind, burrowed into Spanish archives to write his histories, the works...
...Lenin, his good friend, described Molotov as "Russia's best filing clerk." The epithet was unfair. True, Molotov is colorless, pedantic, phenomenally hardworking. His mind likes order, method, efficiency, and all that passes through it is filed neatly in mental pigeonholes. But he is no dullard. A clear thinker, he keeps his feet on a solid foundation of history, philosophy and economics. Like most Soviet leaders, he quotes from Hegel, Marx, Lenin, Plekhanov-and Stalin-at the drop of a gavel...
...preacher seeks a sermon, any statesman a goal, any thinker a philosophy, they (and all the rest of us) have before us the highest purpose of all in leading the inevitable fight against the last barrier that separates us from true universal brotherhood. Not nationalism itself, but its breeding ground -ignorance, stupidity, greed, traditionalism -are the enemies of the people...
...Brigadier Kenneth W. D. Strong, at 43 one of the British Army's bright young men. Strong's receding chin and horn-rimmed glasses make him look like an American caricature of an Englishman. He is a leading authority on the German Army, an able military thinker. At work he religiously wears the tartan trousers of his regiment, the Royal Scots Fusiliers; he has been accused of wearing plaid pajamas. His deputy: U.S. Colonel Thomas E. Roderick, onetime executive officer of the U.S. War Department's G-2 in Washington...