Hints and tips:
...No matter: A World Restored by Henry Kissinger supplied an early sign of what Thomas Harding calls the publisher’s “remarkable perspicacity”....
...Number 381 is on the site of the stables, no less, of Thomas More....
...Ken Kesey, Clive Barker, Thomas Harris and others subsequently created malignant shrinks....
...The Norwegian writers Thomas Enger and Jorn Lier Horst have very different writing personalities: Enger, fierce and psychologically driven; Lier Horst, cool and measured....
...Washington Wizards guard Isaiah Thomas learned this the hard way, ejected at a game in December after confronting a Sixers fan who had tried to distract him during free-throws....
...There, during the Margaret Thatcher years, he re-forged his political compass, reading deeply Adam Smith, Friedrich Hayek and Isaiah Berlin....
...The distinction, made by Isaiah Berlin in his essay on Tolstoy’s view of history, is between “foxes” who know many little things and “hedgehogs” who know one big thing....
...Daniel Kahneman, Steven Pinker and Thomas Piketty aren’t grand theorists like Marx or Freud. They argue from experiments, datasets and statistical analyses....
...If it would be illiberal and unchristian of me to suppose that divine judgment might be brought down on the United States for grinding the faces of the poor (despite all the great prophet Isaiah has to say...
...“The Song of Songs” anticipates the melancholic ecstasies of Spenser, Shelley, Yeats, Dylan Thomas....
...Isaiah Berlin popularised the old saying that the fox knows many little things but the hedgehog knows one big thing....
...From distinguished modern followers of Kant, such as Thomas Scanlon, he draws the idea of principles that nobody could reasonably reject....
...(b) On rereading Thomas à Kempis: “I …seem never to have had the least faculty or disposition for the supernatural.”...
...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 Bliss and Sir Thomas...
...Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why the World Needs a Green Revolution – and How We Can Renew Our Global Future By Thomas Friedman Allen Lane £20, 448 pages FT Bookshop price: £16 Tom Friedman has done it again...
...As Thomas Gray wrote: “Full many a flower is born to blush unseen; and waste its sweetness on the desert air.”...
...Isaiah Berlin wrote many years ago that hedgehogs always win the long-term race against foxes. Message to the investor class: Hold that thought.” But who wants to be a hedgehog?...
...Berlin, Tatyana Tolstaya on Joseph Brodsky, Seamus Heaney on Thomas Flanagan - the catalogue of stars goes on....
...But then however Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas arrived. , making Justice Rehnquist look retro....
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