Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Early in the book, hooks sets up her views on race, showing herself a critical and careful thinker by rejecting both of the well-publicized extremes that have recently dominated and sidetracked discussions of the topic. She dismisses the essentialism of nationalists like Louis Farrakhan who think racial identities are mystically ingrained in our souls .hooks also rejects the assimilationist views of writers like Shelby Steele who say race matters so little that Blacks should stop complaining and reap the benefits of the great American society...
...rightly regarded as the father of modern psychiatry -- as revolutionary a thinker as Darwin, as daring an explorer of the interior world as Columbus was of the exterior. Sigmund Freud not only developed the most profound theory to explain the workings of the human mind, but he also devised much of the terminology -- from Oedipus complex to penis envy -- that has become part of the language. The discipline he founded, psychoanalysis, became the world's most famous technique for helping the troubled come to grips with the demons haunting their minds...
...same point is made by a more conservative thinker, Ronda Chervin, a philosophy professor at the seminary of the Los Angeles archdiocese. Chervin is one of the three official consultants on the bishops' pastoral letter who have remained throughout the project. She does not see the all-male priesthood as an injustice and predicts, "There will be more and more women confidently within leadership positions. It will be taken for granted that women will teach in seminaries, manage finances or act in diocesan or parish leadership roles...
...Rabbit is Rich is, I think, oneveryone's list of greatest American works," saidBluementhal, who teaches Updike's novelSelf-Consciousness in his course. "He'sboth a consummate prose stylist and a reallybroad-ranging thinker and critic...certainly hewill go down as the essential American novelist ofthis period...
...1970s Brown the thinker was often so far ahead of the curve that he was in danger of hurtling into orbit. But in many ways the times have caught up with his fear for the planet and the people on it. Still, like Republican Pat Buchanan, he may have turned into the candidate for people who are sick of politicians-as-usual. If that's the case, it's a wonder Brown doesn't get more votes than he does...