Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mordecai Kaplan, always an unorthodox thinker, began outraging Jewish fundamentalists a decade ago by launching the "reconstructionist" movement to liberalize Hebrew doctrine. The issue last week was a newly published Sabbath
...several collaborators, is fact-packed and scholarly. Unfortunately, it is also uneven and undigested. It fails to synthesize the social philosophy which Bellamy scattered through many an article and book. But, until a better biography is written, thoughtful readers will value it for rescuing a fertile U.S. thinker from his half-forgotten reputation as a one-book...
...world's great scientists died in Moscow last fortnight. He was almost unknown in the U.S. Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky was a cosmic thinker who founded a cosmic science which he called "biogeochemistry"-the study of life against the vast background of geological time...
...despite his new humility, Poet Auden does not lay sole blame for the blunders of contemporary thought on the artist and creative thinker. For the plain people clamor at the artist's door, promising him devotion and rich rewards if he will only distract them from the harshness of life by painting it in magic colors and assuring them that their idle dreams and nostalgia are true and good. They cry: "Carry me back, Master, to the cathedral town where the canons run through the water meadows with butterfly nets and the old women keep sweetshops in the cobbled...
...from Hertz's demonstration of the existence of electromagnetic waves. And Hertz got the idea of looking for such waves from Clerk Maxwell, who got his idea from working with the calculus. And the calculus was invented long before by Newton, who was an abstract, not a practical thinker...