Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only Black candidate in the race it is unlikely that he can unify a bloc the way Washington did. The Democratic nominee for mayor of Chicago was quite mainstream, himself a congressman from the area. But King-bald and bedecked in beard and mustache-is an original and radical thinker who may alienate the conversative-though steadfastly Democratic-electorate...
...WHATEVER PUSHES MAN along a tragic path of suffering and loss cannot be explained, remains secret, Life contains its own mysterious determinism." In the latest of the Grove Press's series on influential dramatists, Norman Berlin approaches Eugene O'Neill not simply as a playwright but as a thinker and philosopher, an anchor in early twentieth-century thought. Through detailed analysis of O'Neill's most important plays, rather than elaborate biography, Berlin skillfully presents the themes and doctrines of O'Neill's works and those he shares with Freud, Marx, Ibsen and other contemporaries...
...This is not the faith that nourished me," protests Michael Novak. A former seminarian and now resident scholar at the Conservative American Enterprise Institute in Washington, Novak is a leading lay thinker in the U.S. Catholic Church. He is the author of The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism, which posits that a free economy is the natural embodiment of Western religious ideals, and of the forthcoming Confessions of a Catholic, a reflection on the Nicene Creed. As a student of both strategic and theological questions, Novak finds the argument made in the draft pastoral letter of the National Conference of Catholic...
...tosses aside the "no-experience" charges a bit too casually The Senate after all can't be retooled like your average factory. But Lautenberg's skill as an organizer and creative thinker has been proven in the unforgiving world of private sector competition. His liberalism is tempered by a healthy sense of realism and understanding of how business works in New Jersey and the nation. The Lautenberg campaign at first merely a struggle to introduce his name--illustrate the candidate's capacity to transfer profit-making instincts to the game of politics...
...celebrated--and complicated--characters of our time. Because so many writers sketch Lennon from so many angles, you get a feeling of completeness and accuracy rare in most biographies of popular artists. Rolling Stone writers saw Lennon the musician, the radical and the husband/father. Lennon the film maker, the thinker and the Beatles. Their visions add up to present a man who created without compromise, without abandoning his convictions. The portrait shows how tragic it is that Lennon died before his time with so much more left to give. But he has willed to us all the legacy...