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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... words came in short sharp bursts of precisely aimed , concentrated fire as image , pun , metaphor , parody , seemed spontaneously to generate one another in a succession of marvellously imaginative patterns , sometimes rising to high ...
... words came in short sharp bursts of precisely aimed , concentrated fire as image , pun , metaphor , parody , seemed spontaneously to generate one another in a succession of marvellously imaginative patterns , sometimes rising to high ...
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... word , but it taxed his long - suffering secretaries : they had to tune their hearing to the highly compressed , word ... words referred to Roosevelt , but Winston , Halifax explained , would take that as a reference to himself.13 The ...
... word , but it taxed his long - suffering secretaries : they had to tune their hearing to the highly compressed , word ... words referred to Roosevelt , but Winston , Halifax explained , would take that as a reference to himself.13 The ...
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... words of unpublished lectures and essays , together with many million more of letters . It soon became apparent that putting this material into order and bringing it to a publishable state was to be Hardy's life's work . With the help ...
... words of unpublished lectures and essays , together with many million more of letters . It soon became apparent that putting this material into order and bringing it to a publishable state was to be Hardy's life's work . With the help ...
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