Word: thinker
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That profound thinker, Henry Wallace, darling of the totalitarian liberals,* is wont to contrast political democracy in the U.S. with the "economic democracy" of the Soviet Union...
...Religions may split into sect or heresy; dynasties may perish or be supplanted, but for century after century the University will continue, and the stream of life will pass through it, and the thinker and the seeker will be bound together in the undying cause of bringing thought into the world...
...ages would see us coming by a little ray, made up of such minds." A few days later their friend Percy Bysshe Shelley, aged 29, vanished with his fated little sailboat into a sultry Mediterranean storm. The next ages have been only fitfully aware of Shelley as a gigantic thinker. And Blunden's biography scarcely supports that description; but it shows the poetry maturing with the man: eloquent, fervorous, audacious, imaginative...
...Warren peace is no longer the issue," said his buddy, "but a Sharp thinker ought to Lodge a decent prediction. Ives-ome Capitol ideas though, and Allen all I Congress a few of the results...
...last days, when his greatest sculptures-like the seated Thinker-had already passed into history, Rodin did little modeling. But the white-bearded master, who looked like a prophet by Michelangelo, saw no reason to stop working. ("I have always lived like a workman," said he, "the pleasure of working enabled me to' endure everything...