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Seven. This is the subjective or Melancholy Dane age. Seven develops a charming pensiveness, becomes a good listener and also a bit of a thinker. Too-constant use of the eraser symbolizes his selfcriticism. Seven needs a perceptive second-grade teacher who can help him through this soul-wrestling. He likes to be near her, to touch and talk...
...made no important speeches; he introduced no legislation. He fought sickness (he walked on his toes because the jarring of his heels caused him pain), studied banking and monetary problems. Finally at 55 (in 1913) he wrote the Federal Reserve Act, proved himself politician and orator as well as thinker by engineering its passage through Congress...
Stalin might, as Trotsky wrote at the end of his preface, completely lack "the qualities of the historic initiator, thinker, writer or orator." Nevertheless, he knew how to make history, knew how to grasp and manage the forces, if not the ideas, of whose conflict history is the expression. No doubt it was true that Stalin's "first qualification was a contemptuous attitude toward ideas." No doubt "the idea...
...tall boys had run away with basketball. When they could simply dunk the ball into a 10-ft.-high basket, what chance did a little fellow have, who had to shoot? Basketball's No. 1 thinker, Coach Forrest C. ("Phog") Allen of the University of Kansas, who had been turning the matter over in his mind for ten years, last week had a chance to try his remedy. The remedy: raise the baskets...
...said sorry, it was the Easter rush; they had no time. Gladys began to wonder what God really was. She saw a stained-glass window that said: Sacred to the Memory of Mrs. Sylvester Horace Rogers . . . GOD IS LOVE. Another inscription said: FEED MY SHEEP. The minister, an advanced thinker, said this meant that "people should have a living wage and good housing conditions." When Gladys asked him if, by praying, she could prevent her G.I. boy friend from being killed, the minister muttered: "Just trust God. All is well," and hurried away. Soon after, the boy friend was killed...