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Charles Malik (45), Lebanese Minister to the U.S. and U.N. delegate, brilliant, genuinely pro-Western thinker and statesman. Cultured, well-educated (American University of Beirut, Harvard), Christian, international-minded, Malik is one of the few bright spots in the Middle Eastern picture, but has virtually no political force to back his sympathies...
...works on Goethe, "The Young Goethe," "Goethe the Thinker," and "Goethe the Poet," have also been acclaimed as "a magnificent guide to his life and works...
Frye, an eminent authority on Blake and author of "Fearful Symmetry," considered Blake's origins, work, and influences as a poet, painter, and thinker...
...could any one of the compartmentalized czars of World War II days. Tall, handsome Stu Symington has a highly developed knack for getting along with people. Friend & foe agree that the phrase that best fits him is "smart operator." He is impetuous, forceful, dedicated; a doer rather than a thinker; a man adept at brain-picking. He made a comfortable fortune and a reputation as an administrator in industry (Emerson Electric), came to Washington as Truman's Surplus Property chief in 1945, later became the first Secretary of the Air Force. Moved to his present job last April, Symington...
What Trotsky really lamented was that Shaw was not a crusader or a fanatic. Others have complained that he was neither a philosopher nor a political thinker of any substance. Shaw's great vanity as an artist-and he was an artist above all-enabled him to agree with double-edged modesty with his critics. He often spoke, truly, of his poor education. He observed with real humility the learning and the passion of the Webbs, whom he worshipped. It was a kind of modesty when he boasted of his brilliance and genius; because...