Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inside the Cocoon. What sort of an individual is the crown prince? Dr. Koizumi has supplied a remarkably candid summing up: "He is by no means an exceptional young man. But he will do. He is sincere, takes his responsibilities seriously, and he is a good thinker even if the process is sometimes painful. He is the product of his upbringing. Like other members of the imperial family, he has lived a cocoonlike existence, with little knowledge of people and events in the outside world. He has too many servants but he lives simply. His great handicap is that...
...University Professor* Paul Tillich is a rarefied philosopher and theologian, speaking and writing in a language he had to learn at the age of 47, in a country noted for its impatience with theology, he has come to be regarded by the U.S. as its foremost Protestant thinker. And though his working vocabulary is viscous with such terms as ontology, theonomy, numenous and the Gestalt of Grace, he is now devoting most of his time to teaching any Harvard or Radcliffe undergraduate who signs up for his highly popular courses...
...razzle-dazzle paradox of his ideas, Paul Tillich is a solid, serious, dedicated thinker. If his critics say that his theology comes close to draining the meaning from all traditional Christian concepts, he replies that, for all too many Christians, these concepts lost their meaning long ago. What Tillich has been trying to do all his life is to make the Christian message meaningful for 20th century man in all his "estrangement." Tillich's greatest appeal is not to full-fledged believers but to the seekers after faith...
...contrapuntally against this is the inner lament of the thinker, persecuted because of his mental superiority: "Why is everybody always pickin' on me?" Even the intellectual, while inwardly tortured, must maintain a stoic facade, however; and the song offers an austere ethic...
...Lippmann's neutralizing German fractions-a word to this "great thinker" and "undismayed" columnist: Think a little harder...