Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cover) He has been called "the first poet of technology," "the greatest living genius of industrial-technical realization in building," "an anticipator of the world to come-which is different from being a prophet," "a seminal thinker," and "an inspired child." But all these encomiums are fairly recent. For most of his life, R. Buckminster Fuller was known simply as a crackpot...
Astor was not a particularly original thinker, Author Terrell believes, but he thoroughly understood something his competitors did not-the value of political influence. In 1808 he appealed to the patriotism of Governor DeWitt Clinton of New York, pointing out to him that three-quarters of the furs purchased in the U.S. were supplied by Canadian companies. A company establishing its headquarters in New York and extending its operations to the Pacific, Astor pointed out, would have the advantage over the Canadians of shorter lines of communication, enabling it to secure the trade for the U.S. and to stabilize...
...Goodman becomes a lecturer famous for his perversities, patronized for his vulgarity and self-exposure, then his problematic personality is bound to overshadow his scholarship. Paul Goodman is too important a thinker to become another sideshow...
Adlai Stevenson has meant more to America as a symbol than as a creative thinker or as a policy maker. He once explained the meaning of Abraham Lincoln: Lincoln was not an original thinker, yet it is to him "that people look today as democracy's foremost spokesman and exemplar. The supreme test of a democratic leader is in his democratic faith--and for this Lincoln stands pre-eminent." Although no Lincoln, Stevenson is important as a symbol and as a man. His U.N. speeches show the man in a different role, one which clouds the meanings of the symbol...
...more interested in over throwing the heavy-handed Diem regime than in pushing the war against the Viet Cong. Among the leaders of the State Department clique is Roger Hilsman, Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs. His friends at the State Department admire him as an independent thinker; his Pentagon critics have dubbed him "the field marshal" because, they say, he tries to run the whole military-political war in Viet