Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...latest, a clutch of slim-limbed nudes by French-born Charles Despiau and German-born Gerhard Marcks, just antedated Hitler's conquest of Poland. Some of this sculpture-figures by Aristide Maillol and Ernst Barlach-was stockily reposeful, others-Lehm-brucks' bulb-domed, emaciated Head of a Thinker, Picasso's elongated Standing Girl -strained on their pedestals as uncomfortably as an ununderstood remark. Still others were what the man in the street calls screwball art. Only quality this sculpture had in common: individuality. Gallery-goers took a long, long look, wondered whether Europe would ever...
...continued to be smart by putting its leading social thinker, Dalton Trumbo (Johnny Got His Gun), to work on the script, later hiring witty, pink-cheeked Donald Ogden Stewart to furnish additional dialogue. This battery developed a smooth, efficient screen play from Morley's novel, preserving every pound of his pathos and adding a few ounces more of their own. They open with Kitty accepting the proposal of solid, reliable Dr. Mark Eisen (James Craig). As Kitty is packing for the elopement, they bring in Wyn Strafford VI (Dennis Morgan), Kitty's socialite ex-husband from Philadelphia...
...special commemorative program to be held on Sunday at the University of Wisconsin, J. Seelye Bixler, Bussey Professor of Theology and president-elect of Colby College, will give an address on "William James as Religious Thinker...
Stages on Life's Way is not only one of Kierkegaard's best books* but luckily his most interesting to ordinary, unmystical readers. And because his musings on the erotic are so lucid, irreligious mankind will respect this essentially religious thinker. Judges Translator Lowrie, "The Stages is clearly a work of genius...
...that the election is over, Wendell Willkie has become a much more sober and conservative speaker. He has also become a more sober and conservative political thinker--mostly more conservative...