Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...patron. But Shelley and Byron both pulled a switch on the historic arrangement. In their circle of literary liberals, they had all the talent and they had all the cash. Percy Bysshe Shelley was heir to ?6,000 a year and thus a natural target for any advanced thinker down on his luck-including Editor-Author Leigh Hunt and Mary's father; William Godwin's outraged rebel's respectability never stopped him from sponging on Shelley...
...Louis J. Hector, 43, most outspoken and independent thinker on the five-man Civil Aeronautics Board, resigned last week after 2½ years of taking strong objection to the board's performance. A former Rhodes scholar and Miami lawyer, Democrat Hector sent a 72-page memo to President Eisenhower with his resignation, urged a sweeping reorganization of the functions of the nation's regulatory agencies to rid them of detail and give them more independence. He also suggested less CAB control of the airlines, more freedom to make their own decisions on strictly business matters. Wrote Hector...
Like a good liberal nineteenth-century free thinker, he doodles with arguments about an entity named God as if this merely happened to be a nondescript question that struck his fancy. Instead of being made more complacent by Hume and Freud, he needs to be jarred by Kierkegaard and Nietzsche into the realization that the religious question is the questions of questions, that the problem of God is not whether an entity exists or does not exist--about which a cautious skepticism might make sense--but whether the spiritual dynamo of an entire civilization is still running or not, whether...
...deny the possibility of being represented cannot be solved by citing a moral maxim. Rather one might ask for an increased awareness of the problem, on the part of everyone at Harvard, and the awareness of his relationship to the Harvard community. The student is not just an independent thinker, cut off from all about him; by choosing to study at Harvard rather than with a private tutor at home, he commits himself to participation in the College community. This includes the commitment to provide for as adequate representation of students to the administration as possible, so that steps...
Tillich may be a great thinker, but human thought does not manufacture God. God is! Theology-totin' Tillich has got the cart before the horse. Prodigal man does not find God by high-flown speculations; God has to grab hold of his straying child. That's why his son came out of heaven, chasing after...