Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spoon-feeding, Clark feels, is way out of line with Harvard's whole teaching tradition. "From the day a man gets here," he says, "he is told he will have to turn himself into a tough-minded, independent thinker. He starts going to his courses and finds his only big 'must' is being present at examinations. He must arrange his whole home-work schedule himself, as well as almost everything else he does...
...loneliest men in the world," though "he assumes that he knows everybody and everybody knows him . . . He made the gossip column a respectable newspaper feature . . . but he spends much of his time justifying the existence of gossip columns and trying to prove he is a heavier thinker than Walter Lippmann...
...Reader & Thinker. "But of the men behind Winchell," the Post said, Ernest Cuneo "deservedly leads the list." A onetime Columbia University lineman, Cuneo is WW's "attorney . . . book-reader . . brain ... at a reported . . . $75,000 a year. [He] has undoubtedly offered the largest single contribution to his book of political knowledge and overheated opinion." Cuneo, friend of many of the early New Dealers, introduced Winchell into the inner circle of the New Deal, and, said the Post, guides most of Winchell's political opinions; lately, the Post implied, .there apparently has been something of a rift, because "Cuneo...
Like any full-time heavyweight thinker, British Philosopher Bertrand Arthur William Russell juggles many kinds of ideas, some sound, and some mere sound. Sifting them apart has kept his critics in a dither for half a century, and may furrow posterity's brow even longer. The Socialist earl, now 79, has taken all knowledge for his sphere and kicked it around like a soccer ball...
Lamont is a self-styled left-wing philosopher, an independent thinker, teacher, and author. He is probably not "American" in the American Legion or McCarran definition of the word. But he is not a Communist. He has supported the United Nations cause in Korea and strongly objects to the lack of civil liberties in Communist Russia. Two months ago, he wrote to the McCarran Subcommittee on Internal Security, "For the one-thousandth time, I completely and categorically deny that I am or ever have been a Communist...