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...philosopher was casual about his writings--he never attempted a major book--his lectures and scholarly papers, including Russian Thinkers and Against the Current, established Berlin's reputation as a formidably learned defender of liberal values. His most famous and influential essay, The Hedgehog and the Fox (1953), divided humankind into those who have one big idea and those who have many smaller ones. Berlin's hedgehogs included Plato and Dante; among the foxes he named Aristotle and Shakespeare. Although too modest to make such a claim for himself, Sir Isaiah was one of the century's most eminent foxes...
...future, humankind must defend itself against a terrifying race of insects--hordes and hordes of incredibly tough and resilient bugs. The brave and fearless men and women of the Mobile Infantry, the awe-inspiring Starship Troopers, must make it their singular goal to destroy every last one of these hideous threats to humanity...
...potent example is the image of a moonlike abandoned space station which was sent into orbit before the war and whose mission humankind can no longer afford to effect. Stranded and starving to death, these astronauts become for Turnbull a modern Icarus, or maybe even the hapless architects of a new Tower of Babel. Looking into the sky, those on earth see palpable evidence of the waning power of man. These ideas are very fruitfully explored and seem the continuation of certain aspects of Brazil, and even Too Far To Go, though on a very different scale...
...care. Among them, like a constantly humanistic refrain playing softly in the background, the credo of the ancient Greek physicians prevailed. Nowhere is that principle more eloquently expressed than in the memorable words found in Precepts, one of the books of the Hippocratic Corpus: "Where there is love of humankind, there is also love of the art of medicine...
According to the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation, as part of his award, Ptashne "will receive an honorarium, a citation highlighting his achievements, and an inscribed statuette of the winged Victory of Samothrace, the Foundations's traditional symbol of humankind's victory over disability, disease and death...