Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...structural analysis. His book is concise and summarizes when possible, but it is not a popularization-he remains honest to the complexities of Levi-Strauss. Blending the old and new anthropology in his approach to structuralism, Leach presents Levi-Strauss as a uniquely important if not over-zealous, thinker...
...recognizes that an effort is afoot to dismantle it, led by rebellious youth. Though he approves of their yearning to reestablish contact with organic life, Mumford is too rigorous a thinker to believe that their movement offers a serious alternative to the megamachine. It is too machinelike itself, with youth running in herds that differ little from those that cram corporation offices. Theirs is not a new consciousness but a very ancient and dubious one: a primordial desire to wipe the slate clean and make a fresh start. But a new start, says Mumford, requires people who have digested...
...Russian girl from Manchuria, Mouza Coutelais-du-Roche, who is now his wife. Trim and fit in body, Zumwalt is also a disciplined logician. He won speech and debating laurels at the Naval Academy (where he ranked 34th in his class of 615, but 275th in conduct). An eclectic thinker, he prefers reading contemporary political, sociological and technical works to military history. At the National War College in the early '60s, he studied the politics of the Kremlin. Zumwalt understands the current apathy of many youths toward the Soviet Union's military posture, but predicts that Russian intentions...
What Webber and Rice seem certain of is that Christ was a profoundly humanitarian radical thinker, not unlike Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy. Near the end of Superstar, the authors invite comparisons between radicals, old and new, using the voice of Judas, who appears this time as a kind of 20th century Everyman, not in a flashback, but in a 2,000-year flash-forward...
...luck is good because he scientifically applies his will to it, as when he picks up his wife-to-be with the full intention of marrying her. Comprehending his possibilities and limitations, he can neither renounce the world and become a saint, nor marry Maud. who is a free-thinker. Either way, to want everything or nothing, you've got to be crazy, fou, and by nature Jean-Louis is serieux -rational, dialectical...