Inevitably, he came away with a theory of his own.
Langley has come up with a "Theory of Replacements," Homer explains: "Everything in life gets replaced.
And in late January, Rosario Trifiletti, a pediatric neurologist from Ramsey, N.J., stepped forward with a theory of the illness.
"We've been remarkably unsuccessful in coming up with a theory of the nature of glass and the glass transition," Dr. Nagel said.
Nevertheless, like many another literary practitioner who spends time in academe, he ended up with a theory of the short story.
After several run-ins with city authorities over his renderings of local, state, and national politicians, Ramírez came up with a theory of the political piñata.
His economic plans were connected with a theory of Dr. George F. Warren, a Cornell University professor, who became one of Roosevelt's closest advisers.
The Vedantic concept of a transcendent and all-inclusive brahman is sought to be harmonized with a theory of emergent evolution.
In it, he withdraws from the extreme standpoint of prewar existentialism - that Being is fixed by historical and cultural circumstance, replacing this ontological radicalism with a theory of language.
In 2012, economists Melissa Kearney and Phillip Levine came up with a theory of "economic despair" that suggested young, unmarried women were getting pregnant because they had lower expectations of "future economic success".
Now and here on out, every election will come with a theory of how the winner stole it (just as, since Vietnam, every war now comes with a medical "syndrome" for soldiers to sue over).
