Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Long was short on ideology; he was a dealmaker, not a thinker. In closed- door negotiating sessions, Long would look a recalcitrant Senator in the eye and say, "What do you want?" If he could, he would provide it. When Long's hard bargaining aroused tension, he relieved it with a backwoods tale. He was ever ready to repay favors done for him, and many Senators who did not care for his politics loved...
...them anything but accessible and eager to share their passion for a very important field. By forcing me to organize my thoughts as I synthesized material, both of these teachers made me a better writer; by making me consider the interrelation of historical events, both made me a better thinker. At many universities, these are considered sufficient goals for the course of an entire education, but Harvard asks for more. Thanks to committed teachers like Mr. Brinkley and Mr. Lee, it is able to expect that students can and will meet these expectations...
...only Harvard coach ever to lead his team toan outright Ivy crown (in 1975), Joe Restic becameHarvard football's chief thinker...
...District Court Judge Charles E. Wyzanski Jr. '27, a nationally acclaimed legal thinker and longtime Harvard affiliate, died in Boston Wednesday...
Harriman was never a brilliant strategic thinker, but he could be shrewd. Often plodding yet at times strikingly bold, detached yet intense, he would seem half asleep at meetings, until someone uttered a fatuous remark. Then he would snap the offender's head off. His nickname in the Kennedy Administration was "the Crocodile...