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...The philosopher Isaiah Berlin, one of many dons sprinkled with Weidenfeld stardust, praised his friend’s “unquenchable curiosity” and “exuberant sense of pleasure” in print but detected a “total absence...
...A former Procter & Gamble sales director who cites the moderate political philosophy of Isaiah Berlin as his guiding light, Mr Donohoe said the case for policy certainty was all the stronger “when we can...
...Arthur George Weidenfeld was born in Vienna on September 13 1919, the son of a failed academic....
...He spoke with uninhibited enthusiasm of his tutor, Isaiah Berlin....
...a poetry evening in one of the last remaining artists’ studios in St John’s Wood, the leafy district of north London which was once home to painters and musicians such as Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Sir Arthur...
...He was determined never to become, as the historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr told me, “a prisoner of a single information network”. Mr Bush prefers clear reporting lines and administrative tidiness....
...For the Arthur and Maggie of his title are Arthur Scargill and Margaret Thatcher, and the jointure they have in history is the miner’s strike of 1984-85....
...Ever the rationalist, he is remorseless in his satires on Catholics and such masters of hocus pocus as Arthur Koestler....
...She asked the 82-year-old intellectual Isaiah Berlin whether his followers were disappointed that he hadn’t come up with “the big idea” in philosophy....
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