Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when he does a lot of people are taking notes. Many call Reich the primary reindustrial thinker the Democrats have. He has recently gained popular national prominence with the publication of his new book. The Next American Frontier, and has appeared in most major news weeklies as well as a smattering of newspapers and television programs spreading its message (see accompanying review). As one congressional aide says. "He's been hot with the policy makers now he's hot with the public...
...less important than the restless energy of the mind that forms them. He is trying to grasp what cannot be known. His aim is not to pursue a single train of logic or evidence but to make sense of the universe that contains him. He is not a thinker but an artist...
...water again. No, I think as I look down on this place that is so small, so diminished, so unspecial, this is not Antioch: Antioch was days and nights of vivid action, Antioch was a paradigm of history on which at one time and another every kind of thinker and doer, every kind of greatness and smallness jostled together and shouldered and elbowed their way through all the lights and resonances and colors, all the smells and flavors and motion of endless variations of circumstance and event in a large and crowded arena. In a particular time people fought...
Harper's Foundation President Rick MacArthur nonetheless praised Kinsley and said the board was paying his tenure the utmost compliment. "As his successor," said MacArthur, "we want another independent, unconventional thinker...
...Here the thinker reveals his greatest weakness. By assuming that the observer is limited by the speed of light, he proves not that the future is not determined--only that we cannot tell what it is. Admitting this shortcoming, Popper explains that although he cannot prove that indeterminism is right, he can offer a number of arguments why it should be. This dilemma is the least satisfying element in an otherwise effective and successful study...