Word: thinker
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Fuller was introduced to the crowd of "well over 200 by William H. Wainwright, associate professor of Architecture, who noted, "He's a very unconventional thinker. There is only one way to listen, that's to trip with Bucky and listen...
Stein has excellent credentials as a thinker who can not only adapt to but also lead changes in economic thinking. In the late 1940s, he helped develop the concept of the "full employment budget" -the idea that the Government should gear expenditures not to estimates of what tax revenues actually will be but to what they would be if the economy were operating at full employment. Nixon finally enunciated that idea as official Government policy last January...
...Thinker and Doer. Jakobson, the strongest of half a dozen leading contenders, hardly fits his own description. At 48, he is a sturdy, affable former journalist who fought against the Russians in the Winter War of 1939-40 and later wrote a scholarly but unflattering book about the Soviet attack. Jakobson has strong support in London and Washington, where the State Department rates him "a thinker and a doer." Paris has been cool partly because he does not speak particularly good French. In addition, Jakobson is Jewish, and the Arabs, who have not said anything so far about his candidacy...
...daughter, Pia Lindstrom, after the actress had left her family for Roberto Rossellini. In divorce cases, Judge Lillie practiced marriage counseling from the bench; one of her theories was that if the wife was crying at the hearing, the marriage could be saved. Her talents as a legal thinker were, many experts agreed, pedestrian...
...calibrates the Gospel stories, Lloyd Webber and Rice burrowed and borrowed from Matthew, Mark, Luke and John to create a libretto. The first three Gospels, says Rice, seem more dependable, since John "was much hotter on visions and supernatural things." They concentrated on Christ's reputation as a humanitarian thinker, the charismatic leader of a dissident movement and a victim who might variously suggest latter-day martyrs like Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. "A big point of Superstar," Rice explains, "is to show the way people react...