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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... wrote continuously , she was not allowed to publish a line of her poetry between 1925 and 1940. During that time she had survived by working in the library of an agricultural institute , by translating and writing critical studies of ...
... wrote continuously , she was not allowed to publish a line of her poetry between 1925 and 1940. During that time she had survived by working in the library of an agricultural institute , by translating and writing critical studies of ...
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... wrote that she had freed herself of Cleopatra's longing . She would endure . On a second volume she wrote out a quotation from Poem without a Hero , as if the lines , written long beforehand , had foretold their meeting : No one knocks ...
... wrote that she had freed herself of Cleopatra's longing . She would endure . On a second volume she wrote out a quotation from Poem without a Hero , as if the lines , written long beforehand , had foretold their meeting : No one knocks ...
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... wrote to congratulate Weizmann on his election as Israel's first President and furiously criticised British complicity in the attack on the new state . He told Weizmann that the Foreign Office had persuaded themselves that a Jewish ...
... wrote to congratulate Weizmann on his election as Israel's first President and furiously criticised British complicity in the attack on the new state . He told Weizmann that the Foreign Office had persuaded themselves that a Jewish ...
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