Word: thinker
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...Emphasizing this encouraged convergence of the practical and the conceptual, she continues, “Every artist is a thinker and a doer. I don’t think that there is that kind of absolute split people often create...
...short run on the Times’s editorial page had yielded little more than uninspired boilerplate. With Mr. Douthat taking his stead, the Times will now feature a conservative whose intellectual vintage is much younger but who has already earned a reputation as an independent thinker and reformer...
...look at his writing at Harvard, you see an extremely sharp intellectual mind,” he said. “Some of his writings were orthodox, others were heterodox...he was vacillating between the two, trying to figure out who he was as a writer and thinker.” “He was very much in the mode of a commentator and a chronicler of the liberal foibles of Harvard. There was always a depth that other polemicists did not have,” Ambinder added. Douthat’s freshman year roommate Jason T. Sauer...
...youngest tenured professors in Harvard history, but a decade later he also went on to win the prestigious John Bates Clark Medal, given to the best American economist under the age of 40. Both his critics and his fans admit he is usually the quickest thinker in even the most rarefied rooms, with a family pedigree that includes two uncles who separately won Nobels for economic science. "All of us are deeply resentful," Douglas Holtz-Eakin, the chief economic adviser to John McCain's presidential campaign, says with a laugh. "In terms of just genetic ability to do this...
...someone who has handled intelligence as a sailor at sea and a strategic thinker in Washington, he was have the expertise and authority to ensure that our 16 intelligence agencies act with unity of effort and of purpose." - Barack Obama, naming Blair the Director of National Intelligence, January...