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...dazed. The best of the lot is the one from Pella, his birthplace and the center of his father's kingdom. It is based loosely on the 4th century portraits by Lysippos, Alexander's chosen artist. In that head at least are both the athlete and the thinker, the head atilt with speculation or a reflex. Yet Alexander is not there either-not the Alexander who strolled with Aristotle; or the one who pored over Xenophon; or the Alexander who would only run in the Olympic Games against other kings, since they would not throw the race...
Like Meese, Deaver is no deep thinker, but he is a levelheaded staff man with a reputation as an effective problem solver...
...himself." "Absolutely terrific!" said New York Times Critic Frank Rich. "I'm just glad it wasn't written about me." "Adler," said New York Magazine Critic David Denby, "had an 'oldfashioned' notion of prose." "I don't think that Pauline is a rigorous, logical thinker," volunteered National Review Film Critic John Simon, a past nemesis of Kael's. "But I don't think that any of us film critics are." Added Shawn: "We wouldn't be publishing Pauline Kael if we didn't admire her work very much. Her work...
...happens often to a good idea man: the boss becomes attached to him, and so dependent that he installs him in the wrong job. So it was with Jimmy Carter and Hamilton Jordan. Jordan is an extraordinary thinker, a man who drags concepts out of thin air, but is a terrible administrator. He has the toughness to handle the most difficult assignments, but he hates details. He has been a poor White House Chief of Staff. Now the boss, convinced that his campaign badly lacked any positive theme or concept, has turned once again to his favorite thinker...
...replacing Walzer, Verba said the department will consider applicants specializing in the general field of ethical analysis of political problems. "Walzer is a creative thinker in the ethics of politics," Verba said...