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...David Levering Lewis. The first of a planned two parts, this volume tracks the controversial black intellectual from his middle-class roots in Massachusetts to Paris for the 1918 Pan-African Congress. Lewis reveals the crusading editor and author of The Souls of Black Folk to be an aloof thinker struggling with contradictory ideas about racial inclusion and separatism...
...former Dean of Economics at Princeton, Bernanke has published several scholarly works, three college textbooks and scores of academic and policy speeches. Read through his works and you'll quickly discovers that he shares many similar views with his predecessor, Alan Greenspan. But he's also an independent thinker who at times crosses swords with those on the left and right. We've stacked up some of Bernanke's views on three key topics and given you links around the web to read more...
...mean those of us gathered around this table, assume that movies and books must be ‘challenging’ in some way to justify their existence. But low-brow entertainment isn’t wholly devoid of value.” The class put on their Serious Thinker faces and nodded in that faux-contemplative way that shows neither agreement nor disagreement...
...Last Sigh (1995) was the last in a string of superhits that began with Midnight's Children (1981). Rushdie-watchers were divided about The Ground Beneath Her Feet(1999), but almost no one was prepared to stand up for Fury (2001), which tells the story of a middle-aged thinker who makes a fortune as a TV doll-maker, then flees a bad marriage and goes to New York. There, while falling in love with a young, Indian-born beauty, he expresses in very long paragraphs his rage at the shallowness and money-mindedness of modern Western civilization. Fury wasn...
...Czar of Bizarre Director and filmmaker David Lynch has plans to bring Transcendental Meditation to the classroom so that students and teachers can know themselves better [PEOPLE, July 25]. Long admired as an original thinker, Lynch won many fans with his darkly atmospheric 1990 TV series Twin Peaks. TIME deemed the show "hauntingly original." As the 1990 fall TV season began, we devoted a cover story to Lynch, describing him as a "wild-at-art genius" and including his whimsical remarks on staying young [Oct. 1, 1990]: "Listen to [Lynch] on the subject of aging?which, as so many things...