Word: thinker
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...porcine Maxie of the sexual deviations ("if he should every be elected to office, he wouldn't put his hand on a Bible to take the oath, he'd put it on his cock")--we can see the classic Bellovian scenario shaping up: The world conspiring against the thinker with the twist this time of family acting the parts of conspirators...
...cartoons, Jules Feiffer has saucily lampooned the neurotic as thinker. In previous plays (Little Murders; Hold Me; Knock Knock), he has caricatured U.S. society as a surrealistic maze of false values. In Grownups, he simply utters a scream of pain. - By T.E. Kalem
...Durang tends to end his plays unconvincingly, in a spasm of violence, as if he had been brooding on deeper things all along-like, say, man's fate. It is as if the playwright as jester suddenly dropped his mask and wished to be acknowledged as a thinker. These two one-acters at Manhattan's Playwrights Horizons Theater display both Durang's virtues and his defects...
...exists, the government uses its power to foster an emphasis on self-interest, rather than bolstering a strong "common character," Will, who is widely considered a leading conservative thinker, said...
...senior official put it, the bureaucratic problem of putting together a budget had become so imposing that "the numbers were driving the policy. We set out to reverse that." Thus did the new Secretary begin to do what the President had chosen him to do. More manager than strategic thinker, Weinberger, in the words of a Reagan aide, "is someone who will run the place...