Word: thinker
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...while the Texas Club grilled up grub for passers-by and Fat Day, the only mobile band at Harvard, trooped around campus for four hours. Agitprop also organized several "tableaux vivant" of masterworks on the steps of Widener, including Raphael's "The School of Athens" and Rodin's "The Thinker" and "The Kiss." Plans for next year include "Playing With Space," a campus wide competition for the most "creative dorm room space utilization" (the winning bedrooms, bathrooms and closets will be photographed and exhibited) and a project for student musicians to compose and perform scores for silent movies...
While his crusade for educational reform brought him into the national spotlight, Barrett first earned his reputation as a leader in 1989 after spearheading the successful effort to pass a gay and lesbian anti-discrimination law. Since then, he has cultivated a reputation as a Clinton-esque thinker with progressive leanings, backing causes and projects ranging from gun control to magnetic-levitation trains
Since antiquity, philosophers have argued that higher mental abilities -- in short, thinking and language -- are the great divide separating humans from other species. The lesser creatures, Rene Descartes contended in 1637, are little more than automatons, sleepwalking through life without a mote of self- awareness. The French thinker found it inconceivable that an animal might have the ability to "use words or signs, putting them together as we do." Charles Darwin delivered an unsettling blow to this doctrine a century ago when he asserted that humans were linked by common ancestry to the rest of the animal kingdom. Darwinism raised...
...award- winning photographer James Balog had a special problem in shooting the pictures for this week's cover story on animal intelligence. He had to coax a fidgety seven-year-old chimpanzee named Sally to sit motionless in the pose of Auguste Rodin's classic bronze sculpture The Thinker. Why The Thinker? Because, explains Balog, "it makes such a strong, symbolic statement of consciousness, awareness and studied thought...
National Security Adviser Tony Lake, 53, is a Mount Holyoke College professor who once worked in the Nixon National Security Council under Henry Kissinger. A conceptual thinker, Lake is expected to emerge as the architect of Clinton's foreign policy. Clinton named Washington lawyer Sandy Berger, another former Carter State Department official, to be Lake's deputy...