Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Incidently, AT&T would be as happy with non-thinking students as with the tail Thinker pictured in its ad: customers who fail to indicate an alternate choice for long distance carrier will automatically remain with AT&T, and they won't even get T-shirts...
...Religious history books will be talking about Schuller 100 years from now," contends Religious Historian Dennis Voskuil. The question, Voskuil says, is whether he will be remembered as a theologian or a showman. Like his early model, Positive Thinker Norman Vincent Peale, Schuller combines an affirmative outlook with old-fashioned piety to assure his audiences that self-esteem and success are desirable and achievable. During an hour that sometimes resembles a celebrity talk show, Schuller speaks earnestly of the abiding desire for self-worth, of "every person's deepest need--one's spiritual hunger for glory." Schuller attempts to assuage...
...Supposing that to be true, it's because I don't much like interviews I feel trapped between two dangers either one enunciates positions in an impersonal manner, leading people to believe that one considers oneself a "thinker" or else I constantly say "I" end up accused of egotism...
Unlike Walt Rostow, who worked for Lyndon Johnson and was not welcomed back at M.I.T., and Henry Kissinger, who chose, because of faculty opposition, not to return to Harvard, Jeane Kirkpatrick will be returning to academe. Her re- entry at Georgetown University as a teacher and thinker will no doubt create a few ripples. Perhaps her greatest legacy will be the rebirth of the idea that after an election America needs help from every quarter...
What distinguishes liberation theology from the mainstream of church thinking is its strong emphasis on social change in the process of spiritual improvement. As Father Jon Sobrino, a Jesuit liberation thinker living in El Salvador, puts it, the aim of liberation theology in Latin America is to "give a new form to a now wretched reality." In analyzing that social reality, some liberation theologians make heavy use of left-wing social science, and in that sense, writes Sobrino, "the influence of Marx on the conception of theological understanding is evident...