Hints and tips:
...Prof Tetlock divided up forecasters into “foxes” and “hedgehogs”, a distinction first popularised by the philosopher Isaiah Berlin....
...The latter, best exemplified by Barack Obama, is like Isaiah Berlin’s proverbial fox. He or she knows many things....
...Sir, Sorry, but I found Daniel Davies’ op-ed “Why a speech from Barack Obama is worth $400,000” (May 1) at once incomprehensible and incredible....
...Daniel Kahneman took up the critique of Collins in Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011), accusing him of “ignoring the determinative power of luck” to shape companies’ destinies....
...Daniel Kahneman, Steven Pinker and Thomas Piketty aren’t grand theorists like Marx or Freud. They argue from experiments, datasets and statistical analyses....
...The first is Isaiah Berlin, whose emphasis on the supreme importance of “negative liberty” — protection against interference by other people and the state — still holds a place in Gray’s base position....
...Morris inspired absorbing performances from young Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center, including the tenor Isaiah Bell, intense as the Madwoman, who poignantly remained alone on stage at the end....
...The passage, from Isaiah, said “those who have been ransomed will return”....
...And he reckons – in the final test case for the New Testament to fulfil the Old – that “Revelations” fails on “aesthetic” grounds because “the citations from Isaiah, Ezekiel, Hosea and even Daniel are much...
...8 What did Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman do after being interrupted by a ringing mobile phone during their Broadway two-hander A Steady Rain?...
..., Ezekiel, Daniel and Jeremiah....
...Here is the prophet Isaiah: “rescue the oppressed, defend the orphan, plead for the widow”. And here is Christ himself, as reported by Luke: “Woe to you who are rich.”...
...(Daniel Patrick Moynihan dissing Ronald Steel, also in 1990.) Respect my name: ”Besides, O’Toole misspelled my name.” (Stanley Kauffmann dissing Fintan O’Toole.)...
...The task in life for the wise, I once heard the late Isaiah Berlin say, is to undo the damage done by the good....
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