Word: thinker
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Whitehead has brought on as his director of planning Alexander Garvin, a highly regarded urban thinker. But the L.M.D.C. also operates in a not-always-comfortable partnership with the Port Authority. Last month, when the L.M.D.C. invited urban design and architecture firms to submit proposals for developing the site, the P.A. leadership, angry that it had not been consulted, started throwing its weight around. Whitehead's group had to withdraw the requests. Soon after, new ones went out over the names of both bodies, but they bore the plain stamp of the barreling Port Authority. Whereas the L.M.D.C. had called...
...Americans don't like George W. Bush as a nail-biting diplomat - but they like him as a fighter. They like him as a clear thinker, a heavy lifter, someone who tells it like it is and then tells how it's going to be. They like him in black and white, and now that he's waist-deep in the Middle East mess he might as well...
...address sponsored in part by the Radcliffe Institute’s Schlesinger Library, Dworkin, easily the most vociferous and controversial feminist author and thinker in America today, outlined why the work of the women’s movement is still unfinished...
Robert Nozick, a renowned Harvard thinker who challenged the welfare state in an influential work that defended Libertarian ideas, died Jan. 23 in Cambridge, after a seven-year battle with stomach cancer...
...common and are still very different: both had tremendous charisma and popularity—enough to merit personal biographies as much as political ones. Both presidents, as Morris’ title suggests, secretly wished to rule their country like kings. But Roosevelt has the edge on Reagan as a thinker and scholar, and unlike Reagan (who had such the soul of a performer that Morris himself felt it appropriate to make things up in his biography), Roosevelt spoke with nothing but guileless sincerity...