Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...summer vacation from Harvard's Graduate School of Public Administration working as a research assistant for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. After taking his M. A. he returned to the New York Fed as a money market researcher, and soon developed a reputation as a brilliant thinker and long-term planner. In 1957 Volcker came to the attention of Chase Manhattan Bank's chief economist, John Wilson, who hired him away from the Fed, thereby starting the self-assured young banker on a 25-year shuttlecock career back and forth between Government service and the Chase...
...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...