Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seemed to be the body of ideas, laws and generalized intentions which Franklin Roosevelt called the New Deal. It was no longer radical-it had been accepted for 16 years. As far as the Democratic Party was concerned it was the new orthodoxy, and Harry Truman, no original thinker but a man tempered with Missouri caution, was orthodox clear through...
...cult of Nicholson-worshippers, which has been growing in England in recent years, insists on regarding his art as the work of a brilliant mathematician or a deep metaphysical thinker. Nicholson himself takes a simpler view. "People are too sophisticated about art," he told a correspondent last week. "They look for hidden meanings. The fact is my six children laugh at my knowledge of mathematics and I know nothing at all about metaphysics. A painter should paint, not theorize. Of course," he added with a twinkle, "it's extremely interesting when a really intelligent man comes along and explains...
...bold challenge that she would "grow hair on any person" under the observation of the A.M.A. Should she not succeed, her failure would be well advertised, and her business would probably go under. On the face of it, this is in the noble Galilean tradition of experiment. The medieval thinker, embodied in Dr. Morris Fishbein, rejects experiment and observation, and asserts from his armchair that the thing is impossible. Are the "dead cells" in his scalp, or are they a few centimeters lower...
...original in Boston's thought became rigid and eccentric. The cradle of the American revolution gradually became the couch of gouty conservatism. "Its dominant mind," remarked Van Wyck Brooks, "was a dry seabeach where all the creatures of history had deposited their shells." And its last great thinker, Henry Adams, sadly noted that "Boston seemed to offer no market for educated labour...
...newcomer to fit into Adams' scheme of things. This House has the asset--if you consider it such--of being the most relaxed and un-self-conscious of all seven. It has to be. Within its nine entries are contained the representatives of almost every varsity of thinker, political and otherwise, in the country...