Word: thinker
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...Rabbit is Rich is, I think, oneveryone's list of greatest American works," saidBluementhal, who teaches Updike's novelSelf-Consciousness in his course. "He'sboth a consummate prose stylist and a reallybroad-ranging thinker and critic...certainly hewill go down as the essential American novelist ofthis period...
...1970s Brown the thinker was often so far ahead of the curve that he was in danger of hurtling into orbit. But in many ways the times have caught up with his fear for the planet and the people on it. Still, like Republican Pat Buchanan, he may have turned into the candidate for people who are sick of politicians-as-usual. If that's the case, it's a wonder Brown doesn't get more votes than he does...
...hypocrisy of conservatives who put their own children in day care so they can travel around the country telling women to be homemakers. And the press loves covering itself and hearing about its power. Columnist John McLaughlin, no special friend of the women's movement, called Faludi "the best thinker of the year," and the National Book Critics Circle just handed her its prize for nonfiction...
Lerner, the first panelist to speak, gave a historical perspective on Wollstonecraft as a feminist thinker...
Aristotle was a great thinker. But I'm not sure his ideas about homosexuality are particularly relevant to modern American society. They're certainly no more relevant than his ideas about slavery: "A slave is a particular species of property..." (The Politics, Chapter VIII) Or his ideas about women: "the male is by nature superior to the female..." (The Politics, Chapter...