Word: thinker
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...intellectual insights that made Turing unique without losing either his eccentricity or his humanity. The complex structure of flashbacks and flash forwards, monologues and dreamlike incidents is meant to convey something of the flavor and psychological sources of his genius. Much like Mozart in Amadeus, this sophisticated thinker seems suspended emotionally in adolescence. As Turing, Jacobi speaks beautifully, zealously, of his passion for science but stutters and splutters when meeting other people. All the energy of his psyche seems to have gone inward. He remains romantically fixated on a long-dead schoolmate who is a living, palpable presence...
...bases loaded in the seventh inning, Dayley came in to save the game. This may be stretching poetry a bit far, but that is the World Series. For the way he marshals the forces of Vince Coleman, Ozzie Smith and Curt Ford, Manager Whitey Herzog is celebrated as a thinker. ("The game of baseball's been awful good to me ever since I stopped trying to play it.") But the older Cardinals manager, Coach Red Schoendienst, still likes to flutter his fingers at the opponents in a tried-and-true hex. Something was working. With bunts, balks and stolen bases...
Differences there are. The front runner is Takeshita, 63, a cautious political pro who proudly admits building his career on "patience and $ silence." Diligently executing other men's policies rather than pushing his own ideas, he is viewed by critics as an unoriginal thinker. Takeshita controls the largest faction in the Diet, with 114 votes, but it is well below the 223 required for victory...
Through five days of testimony, Bork portrayed himself as a questing thinker who had mellowed with time. In the process, he modified or danced away from several of his well-documented, iconoclastic views on key legal issues ranging from freedom of speech to sex discrimination. To explain his evolving ideas, he quoted Benjamin Franklin: "The older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment and to pay more respect to the judgment of others...
...trimming his sails, Bork left his liberal critics scurrying to revise their tactics. Said Nan Aron, director of the Alliance for Justice: "He's not coming across as a cool, intellectual thinker but as someone who changes his mind according to which way the wind is blowing." The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights produced a seven-page analysis called Bork v. Bork that declared, "What the New Judge Bork now says differs significantly from the Old Judge Bork on free speech, discrimination on the basis of sex, privacy and contraception...