Considering candidates, government needs both thinkers and doers In 1972, the rock group Jethro Tull released a 43-minute song that read more like a college dissertation than a lyric. The “poem” written by fictional child prodigy Gerald Bostock titled “Thick as a Brick” contained a verse memorable to this fledgling college student: “the doer and the thinker, no allowance for the other.” |