Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ages would see us coming by a little ray, made up of such minds." A few days later their friend Percy Bysshe Shelley, aged 29, vanished with his fated little sailboat into a sultry Mediterranean storm. The next ages have been only fitfully aware of Shelley as a gigantic thinker. And Blunden's biography scarcely supports that description; but it shows the poetry maturing with the man: eloquent, fervorous, audacious, imaginative...
...Warren peace is no longer the issue," said his buddy, "but a Sharp thinker ought to Lodge a decent prediction. Ives-ome Capitol ideas though, and Allen all I Congress a few of the results...
...last days, when his greatest sculptures-like the seated Thinker-had already passed into history, Rodin did little modeling. But the white-bearded master, who looked like a prophet by Michelangelo, saw no reason to stop working. ("I have always lived like a workman," said he, "the pleasure of working enabled me to' endure everything...
Seven. This is the subjective or Melancholy Dane age. Seven develops a charming pensiveness, becomes a good listener and also a bit of a thinker. Too-constant use of the eraser symbolizes his selfcriticism. Seven needs a perceptive second-grade teacher who can help him through this soul-wrestling. He likes to be near her, to touch and talk...
...made no important speeches; he introduced no legislation. He fought sickness (he walked on his toes because the jarring of his heels caused him pain), studied banking and monetary problems. Finally at 55 (in 1913) he wrote the Federal Reserve Act, proved himself politician and orator as well as thinker by engineering its passage through Congress...