Word: hedgehogness
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...house also contains some of Mrs. Constable's designs. She loves constructing paper animals; one sits next to a toy hedgehog on her husband's desk in the study. (Mrs. Constable has illustrated a children's book about hedgehogs, scheduled for publication this spring...
...follows these with a group of intriguing reviews on Pascal, Mill, Wittgenstein, and others of more sensibility than science. The discussion of The Age of Analysis picks up Morton White's rewarding distinction between the "hedgehogs" and "foxes" of twentieth-century philosophy (taken from the Greek poet Archilochus: "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing...
...Shakespeare's conviction that the social order must be restored-a kind of Fortinbras complex ("The election lights on Fortinbras") in which the corpse-encumbered stage is tidied up in Act V, Scene 5. In terms of the intriguing concept developed in Sir Isaiah Berlin's The Hedgehog and the Fox ("The fox knows many things but the hedgehog knows one big thing"), William Shakespeare is the prince of foxes. The hedgehogs are the great systematic thinkers, and, since life is not systematic, they are also the great excluders. The great men of feeling, of whom Shakespeare...
When Ambrose Usher first bubbled into print, London critics hooted happily that the model for the talkative detective was obviously brilliant, pudgy Sir Isaiah Berlin, Oxford don, author (The Hedgehog and the Fox), cross-country conversationalist and, during World War II, a first secretary at the British embassy in Washington. Jocelyn Davey was a nom de plume, and there seemed good reason to suspect that Sir Isaiah might be Author Davey, as well as Hero Usher. To save a fellow Reform Club member from disrepute, the real author stepped forward: brilliant, pudgy Chaim ("Rab") Raphael, who was at Oxford with...
...among the foxes of the world, Chiang Kai-shek long ago found the hedgehog's one big thing: the world's primary and implacable enemy was and is the Communist conspiracy directed from Moscow. It was a single-mindedness that in the 1930s exasperated his countrymen (who wanted him to fight Japanese instead of Communists), in the 1940s, General Joseph Stilwell (who wanted him to arm Communist troops to fight in Burma) and President Harry Truman (who insisted that he coalesce with what Secretary of State Byrnes termed "the so-called Communists"). While many bright young foxes were...