Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that O'Neill had developed any confidence in Reagan as President - or as a thinker. To the contrary, the Speaker returned from White House meetings and told aides that he was astonished at the empty conversations. Reagan was a nice guy all right, related Tip, but not one for heavy business. When O'Neill raised certain issues, he reported, the President would invariably deflect them to an aide and resume his easy storytelling. Never, declared the disbelieving Speaker, had he seen a President work in such a detached...
...Kennedy Administration, he has almost always been a No. 2 man, a brilliant executor of policy formulated by others rather than a setter of goals and priorities. He is pre-eminently a doer who has ascended to a post where he will also have to prove himself as a thinker...
Some Harvard professors, however, underscored Haig's foreign policy experience and praised him as a strategic thinker. "Mr. Haig knows where Berlin is," Karl W. Deutsch, professor of Government, said. "He will make no adventurist moves against Cuba without thinking of global consequences...
Looking like a cross between Hagar the Horrible and Rodin's The Thinker for his role in the film Conan the Barbarian, Bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger is clearly no dumbbell. He will be working out alongside Sandahl Bergman, who steamed up movie theaters in Bob Fosse's All That Jazz. Conan, about to go into production in Spain, is based on the 1930s sword-and-sorcery tales of Robert E. Howard. Schwarzenegger's main cause for thoughtful concern is the film's villain, Thulsa Doom, played by James Earl Jones, the ominous voice of Star Wars...
DIED. Oswald Ernald Mosley, 84, dashing, charismatic leader of the British Union of Fascists whose army of anti-Semitic Blackshirts fomented hatred in London during the 1930s; in Orsay, France. A brilliant but impatient thinker and a gifted orator, Sir Oswald (he inherited the title from his father, an English baronet) was elected to Parliament at age 22 as a Conservative, later became an independent, then a Socialist Laborite, and finally embraced the ideology of Mussolini and Hitler. Held in detention as a national security risk during World War II, he later exiled himself to a villa in France...