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...In the text, her range of reference (there are endnotes) is deliciously broad in scope — here are John Berryman and John Berger, here is a correspondence with Czech poet and immunologist Miroslav Holub....
...“White magic, black magic” was how historian of cubism John Golding characterised the twin founders of Modernist art, Constantin Brâncuşi and Pablo Picasso....
...Invoking Dante and Plato, Coetzee has his lovers contemplate the transcendent qualities of love, music and poetry. If time means nothing, what meaning could old age have?...
...And Greek scholars acknowledged their debts: Plato has Egyptians invent mathematics, geometry and astronomy, while Herodotus explains that the Greek alphabet came from Phoenicia, and was known in Greece...
...This week I pictured John Boehner, who fell victim to similar forces as McCarthy, swirling a glass of merlot on his Ohio porch and giving thanks to the day he retired....
...Some professors have already filmed courses: James Orr on Plato; Oxford theologian Nigel Biggar on colonialism; as well as Peterson....
...Like Plato, Tasioulas uses this example to argue why process matters in law....
...John Atkinson’s family said: “It is crystal clear that due to . . . failings, John died from injuries that he could and should have survived.”...
...She’s referring to the 1999 beaded John Galliano dress she sourced for Clooney to wear to the premiere of her husband George’s film Ticket to Paradise in September last year....
...Plato and Aristotle believed song could purify the soul and promote mental health, and the ancient Egyptians treated their sick with chanting rituals....
...The draconian sentence entered the presidential campaign when candidate John F Kennedy called Coretta Scott King to express concern for her husband and directed his brother and campaign manager Robert Kennedy...
...The Aristocracy of Talent is finely constructed: fluent insights include the importance of Plato’s distrust of democracy, on the grounds that it tended to lead to tyranny, and his insistence on the need...
...Kind as he was (a wry Isaiah Berlin, it is said, likened him to Christ), John Rawls would have deplored the cop-out....
...Across all subjects taught in universities, William Strunk’s classic Elements of Style is in top position and Karl Marx’s The Manifesto of the Communist Party is fourth, ahead of Plato’s The Republic....
...He sat there and talked to them about Plato, and they listened.”...
...The western mind might have taken a very different shape had his ideas prevailed over those of his successor, Plato, who saw ultimate reality as immutable....
...thinking man’s channel”, if there ever was one — is perpetually rerunning Magee’s interviews with the experts of his day, commenting on and explaining the core of western philosophical development from Plato...
...We think civilisation is Plato, the Acropolis and the classics....
...Even Wittgenstein ends up immersed in Plato and Kierkegaard. Rather, “invention, originality and oddity” mark Rée’s course....
...Sandwiched between the Mahlers came the extended finale of Copland’s Appalachian Spring, lovingly conducted by Thomas — far and away the highlight of the night — and a 15-minute composition by John Williams...
...john.thornhill@ft.com Letter in response to this column: What is ‘uniting’ about Facebook? / From Jascha Kessler, Santa Monica, CA, US...
...Plato is a hedgehog. Tolstoy is — tricky, but never mind. What goes for people goes for the museums they make. Some specialise; others range widely....
...We are a long way short of that utopia, but it is the one John Stuart Mill and Martin Luther King alike pointed us towards and it still feels like the right destination....
...An unqualified democracy that recognises only the principle of majority rule can conceivably deteriorate into a tyranny of the majority, as Plato and John Stuart Mill warned....
...Comment by John on Robert Shrimsley’s column about quitting twitter, Become a Qwitter to salvage Twitter “I was a twitter addict until a few weeks ago. Checked it every thirty minutes....
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