Word: thinker
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...presidency have been around for a while in one form or another. A lot of the nostrums for the Depression, for instance, were debated in the days of Herbert Hoover. But the man who got serious about them and acted on them, Franklin Roosevelt, became known as the New Thinker. John Kennedy did not dream up the Peace Corps. He swiped the idea from Congressman Henry Reuss and Senator Hubert Humphrey, who, of course, borrowed it from church dusted-off, replated New Deal...
...Loon's versatility and imagination as an illustrator which makes DNA for Beginners so entertaining and understandable. The range of his models is extraordinary. He draws on Auguste Rodin's Thinker, Andy Warhol's soup cans, Thomas Nast's cartoons of Victorian social commentary, and dozens of other artists' works. Caricatures, engravings, photographs, and a diagrams are all intermingled without ever clashing. Gregor Mendel's famous pea plants, study of which led to the discovery of genes, show up as Jolly Green Giants...
...district attorney of Louis Parish, La., Jim Garrison, also announced that he had solved the JFK assassination. His theory was that a conspiracy was headed by the director of New Orleans' International Trade Mart and a liberal thinker. Clay L. Shaw, Garrison insisted that Shaw had met with Oswald and master pilot and gun enthusiast David Ferrie, and that the three had planned the killing. Oswald had perpetrated the crime, and was then set up as a scapegoat by his fellow conspirators. Shaw went to trial in highly publicized proceedings, and was found not guilty. Garrison was also convinced...
...fabulous leader and thinker who now faces the fairly daunting and prevalent issue of hunger," adds Newberger...
Then comes Chen Yun, 78, a shy man who was elected to the Politburo as far back as the Long March in 1934. Once a soldier, he later served as Chairman of the State Financial and Economic Commission and has become China's leading economic thinker, the man who insists that China's people need consumer goods and the state must loosen its controls to provide them. This sets him against Li Xiannian, who thinks that China must focus on infrastructure and capital goods...