Word: thinker
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...original in Boston's thought became rigid and eccentric. The cradle of the American revolution gradually became the couch of gouty conservatism. "Its dominant mind," remarked Van Wyck Brooks, "was a dry seabeach where all the creatures of history had deposited their shells." And its last great thinker, Henry Adams, sadly noted that "Boston seemed to offer no market for educated labour...
...newcomer to fit into Adams' scheme of things. This House has the asset--if you consider it such--of being the most relaxed and un-self-conscious of all seven. It has to be. Within its nine entries are contained the representatives of almost every varsity of thinker, political and otherwise, in the country...
...Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg. . . . As a Christian gentleman, a thinker, a scholar, a diplomat, a patriot, he is unexcelled...
...Shavian doctrine into a system of thought, is one of the few who still pay unflagging homage to Shaw's ideas. For him Shaw is not merely a brilliant playwright who handled the English language with a clarity and wit unrivaled since Swift; Shaw is also a profound thinker whose "pose of arrogance was a deliberate strategy in an utterly altruistic struggle" to irritate men into thought. But the "utterly altruistic struggle" failed, and there was Shaw's tragedy: he, the court jester, was idolized, his plays were adored, but his opinions were either ridiculed or thinned into...
Shaw, never a systematic nor an original thinker, preached socialism-but a brand so condescending and aristocratic that both Hyde Park revolutionists and solid trade unionists regarded him as an interloper. His bureaucratic socialism was a mixture of the Enlightened Gentleman and the Robot Superman. His heated exposes of the conditions of England's workers were followed by sneering gibes at their stupidity (the "Yahoos," he called them). He attacked capitalism, but portrayed capitalists so sympathetically that the readers of his plays found the attack indistinguishable from a defense...