Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Characterized by J. Seelye Bixler, Bussey Professor of Theology, who is in general charge of the ceremony, as an "outstanding leader and thinker in contemporary religions and political fields," Niebuhr will speak on "The Relation of the devotional service will be conducted Revelation to the Meaning of History." One of the few Americans to have been appointed to a Gifford Lectureship of Scotland, an honor which he shares with Professor William E. Hocking and Professor Arthur Darby Nock of Harvard, he is the author of many books and an editor of the "Nation...
...executed man in his white gown and tall cap adorned with a red cross, his hands bound." Towards the virtuous end of his life Poll finds a new pal-"One Lizárdi . . . a sorry writer in your motherland, known to the public as 'the Mexican Thinker.' " Dying, he entrusts Thinker Lizárdi with his story. The Thinker adds his own account of Poll's pathetic death...
...Mexican Thinker. Joaquín de Lizárdi, the author of the Parrot's adventures, wrote only this novel, and did not even mean to do that. He was a political pamphleteer, and this fictional false-face for his ideas was his "last hope of outwitting the censorship, as well as of making a living by its sales. . . ." Serialized, it was suppressed at the eleventh chapter, published in full after his death...
...never for long. His wits were "intransigent and not for sale," and though he was afraid to die, "he was not afraid to suffer a long, miserable existence for the sake of his beliefs." He wanted his epitaph to read, "Here lies the ashes of The Mexican Thinker, who did what he could for his country." But he never had a gravestone...
...statistics division. Tall (6 ft. 1 1/2 in.), husky (some 200 lb.), black-haired Bob Nathan worked his way through University of Pennsylvania as a tutor, reporter, Real Silk stocking salesman, got into defense work via the Department of Commerce and National Resources Planning Board. No armchair thinker, he was an all-out expansionist even in the early days of defense; helped get the "Victory Program" adopted. Even Old Dealers think him one of the best young Government career...