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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... Bowra was its most assiduous seducer . Cyril Connolly remembered how Bowra collected him and then introduced him around a room : ' This is Connolly . Coming man . [ Pause ] . Hasn't come yet . ' Isaiah first came to Bowra's attention ...
... Bowra was its most assiduous seducer . Cyril Connolly remembered how Bowra collected him and then introduced him around a room : ' This is Connolly . Coming man . [ Pause ] . Hasn't come yet . ' Isaiah first came to Bowra's attention ...
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... Bowra had given him the confidence to be himself , to let the talk flow , to let the exuberance bubble over . Bowra helped him to refuse the buttoned - up donnish persona on offer in the common rooms of his time . For a cautious ...
... Bowra had given him the confidence to be himself , to let the talk flow , to let the exuberance bubble over . Bowra helped him to refuse the buttoned - up donnish persona on offer in the common rooms of his time . For a cautious ...
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... Bowra wrote to Frankfurter casting doubt on von Trott's reliability . The Bowra letter , intercepted by the British postal censors , ended up in British intelligence files . When , in 1943 , von Trott , by now committed to the ...
... Bowra wrote to Frankfurter casting doubt on von Trott's reliability . The Bowra letter , intercepted by the British postal censors , ended up in British intelligence files . When , in 1943 , von Trott , by now committed to the ...
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