Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been perhaps overly methodical in his approach to the job. Some say that he moves too slowly on issues and is not aggressive enough. "He likes to think things through," says Sonnenfeldt, "but there is not always that luxury." Nor is he noted for any brilliance as a strategic thinker who can juggle concepts of power and alliances. He tends to come across as a good gray diplomat, measured in judgment but unexciting in approach...
Kahn would be a more convincing positive thinker if he stopped trying to bully readers with his raw intelligence. His practice of blitzing an audience with conjecture and perceptions, as if they were facts, may be stimulating in a lecture hall but is unsatisfying in a book. His proposal to promote conservative virtues with conferences and public relations campaigns, as if values were so many hamburgers, is simply materialism as usual. The spirit gets only lip service, which is no way to build lasting confidence. Investors in The Coming Boom should be careful. At times like these, one can never...
...confusion provides the basis for much of the humor here, as everyone races around in a sexual frenzy or sits paralyzed by anxiety and fears of inadequacy. Character quirks, brought out by the mismatching of Jone Ferrar and Mia Farrow, who play a prompous professor and a flirtatious free-thinker, respectively, offer occasional giggles. Less obvious jokes are found in Golden Willis' whimsical camera work as he bobs and sways to portray the view from Allen's homemade flying bicycle...
...stir." Meanwhile, the Secretary keeps the details of foreign troubles largely to himself, giving his aides inadequate guidance on handling those problems to which he is not devoting his efforts. Indeed, the broadest charge against Haig also reflects his greatest strength: he is a doer rather than a thinker. He is a man of action who learned the operational skills of diplomacy from his mentor in the Nixon Administration, Henry Kissinger, but who basically lacks Kissinger's vision of global strategy. In this sense, his epic shuttle showed him both at his strongest-striving to mediate an explosive confrontation...
...will drop his head and his heart, his club and sometimes his caddie. No one will ever again be Nicklaus or Palmer, let alone equal parts of both, but Stadler at least will not have to belly flop into any lakes. At the Masters, a deep thinker asked him, "Where are you now, and where are you going?" "Here," the Walrus said, "and home." -By Tom Callahan