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Despite her high party posts, it is doubtful that Elizabeth Gurley Flynn had much influence on policy, for she was an agitator and orator rather than a Marxist dialectician or thinker. She wrote a chattily reminiscent column in the Daily Worker called "The Life of the Party," and always proved able to follow obediently every twist and turn of the party line. After the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the act denying passports to Communists, 74-year-old Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was free to travel to the Soviet Union as a guest of the Kremlin, and there...
...unlikely sort of cardinal to be encouraging the renewal of American Catholicism, but that is partly because he is an unlikely cardinal. He is the only life member of the N.A.A.C.P. who has publicly endorsed the aims of the John Birch Society. A doer rather than an original thinker, Cushing openly confesses his inability to follow theological argument; yet his lengthy pastoral letters are often eloquent. He is a tireless fund-raiser out of the mold of brick-and-mortar prelates, but his greatness is measured in intangibles: his extraordinary love for people, the good will he has fostered among...
Jefferson's principles as enunciated in the Declaration of Independence were exemplary but he had trouble applying them to specific situations. He was not a genuine thinker like James Madison or John Adams, who hammered out a consistent theory of liberty. He cheerfully assumed he knew the truth and, much like the fanatics of the French Revolution, always thought he was expressing the will of the people...
...literature, moved into the upper reaches of the civil service, then joined the Rothschild bank and quickly rose to general manager, the top post under the Rothschilds themselves. During De Gaulle's years out of power, he impressed le grand Charles with his gifts as a writer, thinker and human being, went to work for him as an adviser. He is worldly, affable, and possesses a neat, aphoristic wit. Sample: "There are two sorts of people: those who try to make their own fortune and those who make the fortunes of others." But in loyally serving De Gaulle...
...intellectuals who lay rotten eggs in the party's nest." But instead of denouncing him, the Humboldt University Communist Party cell voted to back Havemann. Finally, the government was forced into the embarrassing position of firing its eminent scholar. The regime dismissed the outspoken Havemann as a "degenerate thinker"-a favorite Nazi charge used for silencing dangerous opposition...