Word: thinker
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...casual thinker this has certain rather unpleasant implications. Either Mr. Brangwyn asks too much of a human face or life asks too little. Of course the belief that man's character lies revealed upon his face has long been shown false. Yet the spiritual power in a man, be it sufficiently great, does penetrate to the surface. Too few today evince any such power. The hard straight lines of an iron age have marked its men. Only among the hills or upon the plains where the world still seems but an unnecessary preface to the heavens can the face...
...Imitations, of course," suggested the dubious. "Originals!" thund ered Jules Mastbaum. The purchase, which involved a year's negotiations with the French Ministry of Beaux Arts and with M. Benedite, venerable curator of the Musee Rodin, includes The Thinker (one of the five bronzes cast from the original mold) and reproductions of Adam and L'Ondre from the group at Rodin's grave. Mr. Mastbaum will lend the collection to the SesquiCentennial Exposition at Philadelphia next year...
Under RELIGION in TIME, Sept. 7, comes John Roach Straton, with a tirade against the dance. Question: Are Preacher Straton's thoughts fit for print? Question: Why should a professed follower of Christ, cleanest thinker and liver, hunt for "dirt, present it, exaggerated and made dirtier, obviously by his own interpretation, to a Christian congregation? . . .to whom, by his own admission, such an interpretation had never occurred...
...says things at times that hit home with a bang-its criticisms are harsh -its adjectives ever are pointed as daggers- it portrays the world a bit cynically yet interestingly-it sees good in some, bad in others, worse in a few, and in so doing pacifies the thinker and makes the gullible thing. That is a mighty achievement; certainly it should overshadow the minor errors that too often arouse petty sentimentalists to complaint...
...these slight ruffles he retained both his composure and his reticence. Grave, deliberate, costly, he has gone on utilizing the genius with which few who deify him as a thinker, apotheosize him as a tragedian, credit him the genius for being funny...