Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stalin might, as Trotsky wrote at the end of his preface, completely lack "the qualities of the historic initiator, thinker, writer or orator." Nevertheless, he knew how to make history, knew how to grasp and manage the forces, if not the ideas, of whose conflict history is the expression. No doubt it was true that Stalin's "first qualification was a contemptuous attitude toward ideas." No doubt "the idea...
...tall boys had run away with basketball. When they could simply dunk the ball into a 10-ft.-high basket, what chance did a little fellow have, who had to shoot? Basketball's No. 1 thinker, Coach Forrest C. ("Phog") Allen of the University of Kansas, who had been turning the matter over in his mind for ten years, last week had a chance to try his remedy. The remedy: raise the baskets...
...said sorry, it was the Easter rush; they had no time. Gladys began to wonder what God really was. She saw a stained-glass window that said: Sacred to the Memory of Mrs. Sylvester Horace Rogers . . . GOD IS LOVE. Another inscription said: FEED MY SHEEP. The minister, an advanced thinker, said this meant that "people should have a living wage and good housing conditions." When Gladys asked him if, by praying, she could prevent her G.I. boy friend from being killed, the minister muttered: "Just trust God. All is well," and hurried away. Soon after, the boy friend was killed...
...surprised that in my later life I should have become so good in taking degrees because, when a schoolboy, I was so bad at passing examinations. In fact, one might almost say that no one ever passed so few examinations and received so many degrees. From this a superficial thinker might argue that the way to get the most degrees is to fail in the most examinations." But there was a more "edifying conclusion" to be drawn...
...tougher the pressure gets, the better Chester Bowles seems to like it. A once-thwarted public servant and social thinker who has just come into his own, he loves his job. Where onetime Price Boss Leon Henderson let the heat frazzle his temper, where onetime Price Boss Prentiss Brown simply got out as fast as he could, Chester Bowles plows ahead with unconcealed pleasure, his big jaw jutting forward like the prow of one of the boats he used to sail in races to Bermuda...