Word: thinker
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...confidence in Red China's leaders, who were all grand chaps. Red Boss Mao Tse-tung took Monty swimming in the Yangtze River (surrounded by 60 nervous lifeguards). Mao's heir apparent, Liu Shao-chi, whose icy demeanor frightens even his colleagues, struck Monty as "a thinker, an intellectual": tough Foreign Minister Chen Yi was "a most genial and pleasant person and has a great sense of humor," and Chou En-lai possessed "a first-class brain...
Essays and Introductions, by William Butler Yeats. As a thinker, Yeats had his crotchets, including a belief in ghosts, fairies, and table rapping, but his holy trinity was Ireland, beauty and poetry, and no priest ever served his faith better...
Essays and Introductions, by William Butler Yeats. As a thinker, Yeats had his crotchets, including a belief in ghosts, fairies, and table rapping, but his holy trinity was Ireland, beauty and poetry, and no priest ever served his faith better...
...which had had a front-page seat at the fight, could only wonder why Jack Kennedy had not chopped Chester Bowles down with one purposeful command, rather than set up an unseemly spectacle as he tried to coax the amiable big-thinker into quitting...
Whatever Hemingway's merits or demerits as a thinker, he had the greatest technical command of English of any modern writer except Joyce. He performed a major operation on the English sentence. He cut out the adjectives and prompting words that tell a reader how to feel and replaced them with spare, brisk monosyllables that he called the "ugly short infantry of the mind." Hemingway spliced his images together like a film editor, so that the action was always advancing on the reader rather than the reader following the action...