Isaiah Berlin: A LifeIsaiah Berlin refused to write an autobiography, but he agreed to talk about himself - and so for 10 years, before's Berlin's death in November 1997, he allowed Michael Ignatieff to interview him about his past, his ideas, his most intimate memories, and his inner conflicts. |
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... felt foreign and ill at ease . He lacked the cultural hinterland that other English boys could take for granted . But within a year his talents for assimilation had borne fruit . He worked hard , played cricket and football badly , felt ...
... felt foreign and ill at ease . He lacked the cultural hinterland that other English boys could take for granted . But within a year his talents for assimilation had borne fruit . He worked hard , played cricket and football badly , felt ...
Page 130
... felt like an opera singer who had sung one too many mad scenes . But there was more than just fatigue in his growing restiveness at the embassy . Working for a vigorously anti - Zionist , pro - Arab Foreign Office was both exhausting ...
... felt like an opera singer who had sung one too many mad scenes . But there was more than just fatigue in his growing restiveness at the embassy . Working for a vigorously anti - Zionist , pro - Arab Foreign Office was both exhausting ...
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... felt accepted among the fellowship , as she had never been at All Souls.52 Berlin's intellectual productivity declined during the Wolfson years , but his writing by no means stopped essays on Georges Sorel , the famous comparison ...
... felt accepted among the fellowship , as she had never been at All Souls.52 Berlin's intellectual productivity declined during the Wolfson years , but his writing by no means stopped essays on Georges Sorel , the famous comparison ...
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