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...same house with a walking edition of Bright Sayings, and it takes a special visitation by the ghost of Lauren Bacall, accompanied on the sound track by a heavenly choir, to win him over. This is probably the nicest thing Hollywood has said for years about a heavy thinker...
...historian also complained against the emphasis towards group rather than individual research projects. He expressed the hope that foundations would come to "regard the individual scholar and thinker not as an irritating nuisance, but as a primary responsibility...
...time a thoroughgoing professional and a global intellectual, a military and civilian thinker who, during off-duty hours on overseas tours, studied Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Russian, even Chinese. During a South Pacific tour, his carousing comrades came upon him at night, studying by candlelight a book called Micronesian Languages, When he was an Air Force assistant attache in Moscow, he wrote some of the best air-intelligence reports about the Soviet Union that the U.S. had ever received. As a longtime Pentagon staff officer, he managed to steer clear of cliques and cabals, and win a reputation for sheer...
...both the Truman and Eisenhower Administrations, who says modestly that he thinks that a big industrialist' should get the job; 3) air-and missile-minded Donald A. Quarles, onetime Bell Laboratories executive, later Secretary of the Air Force, now Deputy Secretary of Defense, a scientist and methodical thinker who was considered a shoo-in until vague but potent word got around that the President had misgivings that Quarles had not yet developed a big-picture mind -not enough forest, too many trees...
...While this skewering of the bourgeois comprises excellent sport for the staff thinker at national headquarters or at the seminary, it leaves a few important things unsaid." For one thing, the church gains in suburbia have not all been in numbers and money. "Within the suburban church there are more people listening attentively to the preaching of the Word who are taking part in administering the sacraments of the church, who are moving steadily toward lives of Christian devotion, and who are carrying the mission of the church through education and missionary endeavor...