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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... told Shiela Grant Duff , the Spanish cause was the litmus test which told you , infallibly , where your friends stood politically . But he added that it was about the only political issue that was clear - cut : ' on all other issues ...
... told Shiela Grant Duff , the Spanish cause was the litmus test which told you , infallibly , where your friends stood politically . But he added that it was about the only political issue that was clear - cut : ' on all other issues ...
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... told him of her childhood on the Black Sea coast - ' a pagan , unbaptised land ' - and of her lifelong affinity with ' an ancient , half - Greek , half - barbarian , deeply un - Russian culture ' on Russia's southern shore . She ...
... told him of her childhood on the Black Sea coast - ' a pagan , unbaptised land ' - and of her lifelong affinity with ' an ancient , half - Greek , half - barbarian , deeply un - Russian culture ' on Russia's southern shore . She ...
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... told friends that he was going to spend his time reading books on the German Romantics and revising his Mellon Lectures on the roots of Romanticism . A fixed routine ensued : weekends at Headington House , weekdays at Albany , mornings ...
... told friends that he was going to spend his time reading books on the German Romantics and revising his Mellon Lectures on the roots of Romanticism . A fixed routine ensued : weekends at Headington House , weekdays at Albany , mornings ...
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