Word: thinker
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...Sometimes I kind of wish I wasn't known as 'Sue St. Louis the soccer player.' It would be nice to be so multi-faceted that I might be called 'Sue St. Louis the great thinker' once in a while--or something like that," she says. "But it's nice to at least have some kind of status...
...first academic vice president of Caltech; University of Chicago Experimental Physicist Robert Millikan, whose prestige attracted many to the young school; and Astronomer and Cosmologist George Ellery Hale, the school's visionary godfather. Because of their academic specialties, the founding trio are irreverently known as "Stinker, Tinker and Thinker...
...English. He does not live the life of a new celebrity, instead subsisting mostly on Social Security in a transient hotel in San Francisco's notorious Tenderloin district. Since his last wife died in 1974, Nyiregyházi has been a virtual recluse. A hard drinker and heavy thinker (Shakespeare and Schiller are familiars), he is as profligate with money as with matrimony. "Of course financial trouble is never welcome," he says. "But I never regarded concertizing as a glorious occupation. I always preferred music as a way of life, not as a profession...
...history to win the modern Grand Slam−the Masters, the P.G.A. and the British and U.S. Opens−in the same year. He is a quarter of the way there. Says he: "Don't say I'm an eternal optimist. I'm a positive thinker." And, of course, he will be using his new technique on the greens, ignoring the fact that smooth putting strokes are like fickle women−here today, gone tomorrow−and the older a man gets, the quicker they go. Gary Player would not let an unpositive thought like that enter...
...effort to reverse the destructive effect on China of Mao's hatred for traditional learning and his contempt for intellectuals. Now that the post-Mao regime of Chairman Hua Kuo-feng has begun to reconstitute the nation's ravaged educational system, China's greatest scholar and thinker may yet be fully rehabilitated. As Confucius said: "When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them...