Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...could any one of the compartmentalized czars of World War II days. Tall, handsome Stu Symington has a highly developed knack for getting along with people. Friend & foe agree that the phrase that best fits him is "smart operator." He is impetuous, forceful, dedicated; a doer rather than a thinker; a man adept at brain-picking. He made a comfortable fortune and a reputation as an administrator in industry (Emerson Electric), came to Washington as Truman's Surplus Property chief in 1945, later became the first Secretary of the Air Force. Moved to his present job last April, Symington...
What Trotsky really lamented was that Shaw was not a crusader or a fanatic. Others have complained that he was neither a philosopher nor a political thinker of any substance. Shaw's great vanity as an artist-and he was an artist above all-enabled him to agree with double-edged modesty with his critics. He often spoke, truly, of his poor education. He observed with real humility the learning and the passion of the Webbs, whom he worshipped. It was a kind of modesty when he boasted of his brilliance and genius; because...
...would probably like to be remembered as one for whom literature was only an instrument," Baker added, pointing out that Shaw regarded himself more of a thinker than a writer. "Yet he wrote perhaps the best English prose of his generation...
...neither an original thinker nor a canny leader, but he was a magnificent pamphleteer. In Boston he began publishing the Liberator, a propaganda paper championing abolition. In a dingy room in Merchants' Hall he set up an old press and printed his famous manifesto: "I am in earnest ... I will not retreat a single inch-AND I WILL BE HEARD." He was as good as his word. Though the Liberator never paid expenses or ever had more than 3,000 subscribers, its articles shook, scandalized and aroused the nation...