Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Through five days of testimony, Bork portrayed himself as a questing thinker who had mellowed with time. In the process, he modified or danced away from several of his well-documented, iconoclastic views on key legal issues ranging from freedom of speech to sex discrimination. To explain his evolving ideas, he quoted Benjamin Franklin: "The older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment and to pay more respect to the judgment of others...
...those he would actually seek to overturn. Despite the instances where Bork has stepped back from earlier positions, and the ambiguity of some of his appeals court rulings, one thing is clear from his 25 years of unflinching and outspoken legal advocacy: he is not the mainstream legal thinker that the White House is now painting...
...died in the 17th century, British thinker Thomas Hobbes would have liked this movie so much that philosophy students today would be reading a book entitled "Robocop" instead of "Leviathan...
Turow does not release the reader from the challenge proferred. This challenge is not to solve a crime, but to recognize that all people can play multiple roles--victim, aggressor, lover, thinker--without paradox...
...chairman of the Federal Reserve Board inspired immediate interest among TIME's journalists. "It took only a short time to decide that Greenspan should be on the cover," says Economy & Business Senior Editor Charles Alexander. "He is one of the most analytical and perceptive economists around, a creative thinker brimming over with ideas. Once we'd chosen him, we immediately sent messages to both our domestic and foreign news bureaus asking that they start analyzing the move...