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Adler has made a point of pondering and whacking at the errors of his chosen victims in modern philosophy for more than 50 years. As a brash undergraduate at Columbia, he once confronted the august philosopher John Dewey so sharply on a theological issue that the great man stormed from the room growling, "Nobody is going to tell me how to love God." In Ten Philosophical Mistakes Adler makes only an occasional swipe at Dewey and leaves God pretty much alone. But he takes on Locke, Hume, Rousseau, Hobbes, Marx and a passel of other post-16th century thinkers, whose...
Almost any literary contrivance can be called a novel nowadays, so the label will do for Flaubert's Parrot. What the book turns out to be, though, is a brash, footloose ramble through the life and works of Gustave Flaubert, and it is hard to think of a work starting from such a narrow, scholarly premise that is so free of preciousness. Julian Barnes does provide one conventional feature: a narrator, in this case Geoffrey Braithwaite, a retired English doctor and Flaubert amateur. He first visited Normandy, the novelist's native ground, as a soldier in 1944, and after...
...network fraternity. CBS, with its distinguished legacy of William Paley, Edward R. Murrow and Playhouse 90, has always embodied broadcasting's old- school elite. NBC, originator of the Today and Tonight shows and numerous other firsts, is a respected, if sometimes stodgy, TV pioneer. ABC, by contrast, is the brash outsider, by turns more innovative and more shrewdly commercial than either of its rivals...
...grasp. Says Paul Hallingby, a friend and longtime business associate: "The Chemical caper never had a chance of succeeding. They were an Establishment bank, and they had ways of heading him off." The bank had plenty of old friends and ties and could afford just to ignore the brash young...
There was little coasting for Karpov, or for Kasparov. The challenger, brash and overconfident, lost four of the first nine games. "Get the kid a doctor," whispered one expert spectator. "He looks like he's in shock." But Kasparov steadied and held the champion through a record 17 straight draws, until Karpov won his fifth game. Though Kasparov now teetered just one lapse from defeat, he somehow slowly captured the psychological momentum. Four draws later he won his first game. But as the strategy of stasis wore on, records, and bored spectators, fell by the wayside...