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Books: The voice of Isaiah
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IN A short autobiographical sketch Sir Isaiah Berlin once wrote
that he had been formed by three traditions. To his Russian origins
he owed his life-long interest in ideas; to his English upbringing,
his commitment to the values of liberty and tolerance; to his
Jewish roots, his sense of the importance of community.
This heady mixture has issued in an extraordinary intellectual
career - Berlin possesses the sort of CV that would, one imagines,
open doors. After St Paul's School, London...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Sir Isaiah Berlin. (philosopher)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
The Economist (US)
; ONCE, when collecting yet another of his numerous prizes, Sir Isaiah Berlin remarked, I have been over-estimated all my life. It was very nice to receive more than his due, he said, but I cannot deceive myself. What would he have made of the crescendo of applause, rising to the gushing, contained
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 "Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)")
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I NEED TO CHANGE MY LIFE OR MY OBITUARY WILL GET BURIED.(Editorial)(Column)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
; ... qualifies you as a football expert? Caller: I drive a beer truck. I used to imagine ways of making my resume more urbane. All the news about the British au pair last week reminded me that I used to think that having an au pair was an extremely sophisticated thing ...
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Workers of the world, forgive us.(Commentary)(Op-Ed)
The Washington Times
; I'd no idea we were so numerous. For I, too, studied under the late Sir Isaiah Berlin, not at Oxford, but at Harvard where he was a visiting professor. But I'm slightly staggered at the huge outpouring of praise at the death of a professor of whom I'd somehow gotten the impression that he was a
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The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas.
The Economist (US)
; FEW writers and intellectuals command the awe and admiration accorded to Sir Isaiah Berlin, and with good reason. His wide-ranging erudition, humane scepticism and elegant prose set him apart from fashionable scholarship. His writing, as Norman St John Stevas said of Walter Bagehot, has all the
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Isaiah Berlin: Man of brilliance, laughter and faith
Jerusalem Post
; ABBA EBAN Jerusalem Post 11-09-1997 Nothing could have offended Sir Isaiah Berlin more than to see himself headlined in an American journal as "The Smartest Jew of His Generation." "Smart" is American English at its worst. It denotes the kind of cleverness that lives together with guile and
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