Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concept of man as a thinker has become outmoded in American technological society, Andre Siegfried, Bacon Exchange Professor and Member of the French Academy, said yesterday...
...into light literature. Father William, they argue, should not be standing on his head. Any reader of the "Nightmares" however, will be inclined to think that more remains to the eighty-three year old Bertrand Russell (and to the somewhat younger Cheshire cat) than his grin. A remarkably acute thinker is merely chuckling in a different medium...
When they come to the Rodin Museum, Jeanne and Alan stick their heads through the noble statue of The Burghers of Calais and smooch a little. Jeanne, as she bats those baby-blues at The Thinker, declares, "I wonder what he is thinking about." After that, nothing matters anyhow. Jane Russell keeps trying to give Scott Brady, her agent, the other 90% of her; and both young women sing, as nowadays most lady vocalists do, in a peculiarly unpleasant morning voice. The hoarseness is apparently intended to suggest that the girls have taken large doses of sin in their time...
...army intelligence school for foreign agents he became an accomplished double-thinker. "I thought that I would go along with [the party] only until a given moment," he said. "Other people [were] sucked in for good." Sent to Austria with the Red army, he promptly defected to the West...
...term in past writers to get at its inner meaning to the philosopher he is studying. From these assembled clues he has built up solutions to complex philosophic problems, while at the same time his method has led him inevitably to wider and wider circles of philosophic inquiry. One thinker has always led him to the next. "You can't isolate," he says, summing up his own experience, "a problem, a person, or a language...