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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bay of Potatoes | 11/14/1997 | See Source »

...less been able to name-drop The Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals in section. Yet despite all the references to Herder, Plato, Machiavelli and Voltaire, I detected some resonance in this history of ideas. What "a priori" meant I did not know, but the basic themes I understood. Berlin was saying that theories were wonderful stuff, great to think about and even more fascinating to create; that there is no limit to where theory can lead in the real world (I knew at least of Marx); but that there is not a singular universal truth. Values, the grounding...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: In Memoriam: Isaiah Berlin | 11/13/1997 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: In Memoriam: Isaiah Berlin | 11/13/1997 | See Source »

...Berlin writes...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: In Memoriam: Isaiah Berlin | 11/13/1997 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: In Memoriam: Isaiah Berlin | 11/13/1997 | See Source »

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