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Chomsky

[ chom-skee ]

noun

  1. (Avram) Noam [nohm, noh, -, uh, m], born 1928, U.S. linguist, educator, and political activist.


Chomsky

/ ˈʃɒɪ /

noun

  1. Chomsky(Avram) Noam1928MUSLANGUAGE: linguistPOLITICS: political critic ( Avram ) Noam (ˈnəʊəm). born 1928, US linguist and political critic. His theory of language structure, transformational generative grammar, superseded the behaviourist view of Leonard Bloomfield
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  • ˈdzⲹ, nounadjective
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He is the author of several books, and co-author with Noam Chomsky of "The Myth of American Idealism."

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More than a half-century ago, Noam Chomsky’s seminal essay, "The Responsibility of Intellectuals," appeared in a Feb. 23, 1967, special issue of The New York Review of Books.

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There has never been a parallel desire to identify a “responsible left,” meaning left-wing critics of liberalism such as Noam Chomsky, James Baldwin or Gore Vidal.

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Starting in the 1960s, Noam Chomsky, a linguist at M.I.T., argued that we use language for reasoning and other forms of thought.

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In The New York Review of Books in 1970, Noam Chomsky, always partial to engaged reporting, called Mr. Allman “one of the most knowledgeable and enterprising of the American correspondents now in Cambodia.”

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