Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...family wealth to buy his office. But there has been--and there is in the Hersh account--something incomplete and unsettling. Kennedy was President in a dangerous time, and while there was plenty of circumstantial evidence that he was busy with extramarital adventures, he was also busy with Berlin, Cuba, Vietnam, nuclear disarmament, the moon shot, racial upheavals and the American economy. Hersh and his fraternity of investigative reporters have served this nation well. But there is a dark side even in their business, particularly in our age of star-driven, megabuck contracts in books and television...
...John Sturges, The Eagle Has Landed (1976). In WWII's final days, Michael Caine spearheads a Nazi plot to take Winston Churchill back to Berlin ? dead or alive. Chock-full cast, from Duvall to Donald Sutherland, Donald Pleasance (with some hair) to Anthony Quayle (miscast) and on the American side, Treat Williams and Larry Hagman...
Nice, I thought. But true? Was Berlin really classifying all these wise men as products of their times? Was he snubbing Rousseau's social contract as less than eternal? If that is what he is saying, then what is there to learn, beside the names and dates and buzzwords associated with these famous, antiquated theories of which Berlin writes? Moreover, what was I to do at the College in order to sort out one from another, to judge Tolstoy from Trotsky? Was this what I was going to encounter in the fall: questions? How many questions could a person...
...Berlin writes...
...bounty of diverse thought, is the substance of truth, which is what this University stands for and what it teaches. But it teaches this truth, veritas, only by teaching it in parts. It is to the credit of the University that President Rudenstine is able to assign Isaiah Berlin to incoming students as a symbol of a free and open school, of the limits and dangers of thought and of the value of our humanity to concepts of truth. Isaiah Berlin lives on in this message...