Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...replacing Walzer, Verba said the department will consider applicants specializing in the general field of ethical analysis of political problems. "Walzer is a creative thinker in the ethics of politics," Verba said...
...across New Hampshire and banging away again at all his old targets with stimulating vigor: "There is enough fat in the Federal Government that if you rendered it, there would be enough soap to wash the whole world." Some 22 position papers designed to portray Reagan as a positive thinker were filed and forgotten. Instead, Reagan presented once again his nostalgic vision of a day still to be recaptured, when the individual was great and the Government small, the U.S. flag and dollar respected everywhere...
Wohl presents ten intellectuals in this chapter ranging from Henri Massis, whom he describes as "not an original thinker," but "an aspiring man of letters who throbbed with the ill-conceived ambition of becoming a French leader of youth and spiritual guide," to Henri de Montherlant, who described himself as "a Knight of nothingness...
Herein lies the frustration of Wohl's book. Amidst portraits of arrogant intellectuals who contemplate the dilettante theories of their predecessors lie intriguing portraits of exciting thinkers like Montherlant. Wohl devotes only three pages to Montherlant, an author whose heroes "enjoy the sensation of being able to dispose of their lives the way they chose." This "knight of nothingness" shines as the only important thinker in the first chapter, and he is an obvious predecessor of the existentialists. Yet Wohl makes no attempt to draw out the connection with existential thought. The analysis of Montherlant is a concise summation devoid...