Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...then, one ought to give Trudeau some credit for being a competent political thinker as well as an out-and-out cad. The invocation of the War Measures Act, announced in the tense early morning hours of October 16, outlawed the FLQ and subjected its members to five-year prison terms. But it also placed in similar jeopardy anyone who "advocates or promotes the unlawful acts, aims, principles or policies...
CANADIAN Jesuit Bernard J.F. Lonergan is considered by many intellectuals to be the finest philosophic thinker of the 20th century. This month, 77 of the best minds in Europe and the Americas - critics and admirers, Protestants, Roman Catholics and agnostics - gathered to examine Lonergan's profoundly challenging work at rural St. Leo College near Tampa...
...will and testament. The speeches and The Man and His Times, a gathering of recollections by people who knew Malcolm X, add subtlety and substance to it. Read in retrospect, they reveal Malcolm X as the most fascinating, convincing and, in some ways, the most measured speaker and thinker that the black militant movement has yet produced...
...Russell, more surely than any great thinker of our day, loved man and grieved for his folly. When he committed his feelings to paper-"Echoes of crics of pain revererate in my heart" -no one laughed. Moral statements having become the property of unct?ous rhetoricians and pious coniving presidents, we tend to hear them with skepticism and anger. Russell's words, however, rang true to almost everyone who heard, because they were complemented by a life style that was manifestly gentle, courageous, and loving...
...have read about homosexuals, perhaps you've even been one, so now you start to worry as this guy comes over and starts handling you. But you're a progressive thinker, and, Jesus, this guy's just had a different background, and now he has different tastes, and it's a free country after all. He doesn't mean any harm; he's putting his fingers through your hair because he likes you. What's wrong with that. So it comes as no surprise when you find yourself in the restroom enjoying...