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...play the piano"), composers ("I really don't like Mozart") and pop music ("At her best, Barbra Streisand is probably the greatest singing actress since Maria Callas"). Often technical, and sometimes sycophantic, the book is perhaps best appreciated by Gould aficionados, but it gives an insight into the pianist's eclectic thought processes...
...Lonergan, 79, Jesuit philosopher and theologian whose championship of rigorous intellectual inquiry as a means of revivifying faith placed him among the foremost Christian thinkers of the 20th century; in Pickering, Ont. A demanding and temperamental teacher, the priest was the author of two densely reasoned, seminal texts: Insight: A Study of Human Understanding (1957) and Method in Theology (1972). Lonergan sought to reshape theological inquiry in light of modern scientific and philosophical advances...
This lack of explanation, and of insight, hampers the book's attempts to serve as a bona fide history. It is generally agreed among historians that the facts alone do not a history make. Analysis remains a needed ingredient, a fact flippantly ignored in Who Spoke...
Hidden in all of this, embedded and often engulfing her narrative, Lurie reveals her own love of writing, an old-fashioned and well-honed gift for the clever phrase and the apt insight. "To take off all your clothes and lie down beside some unclothed larger person is a terribly risky business. The odds are stacked almost as heavily against you as in the New York State Lottery. He could hurt you: He could laugh at you; he could take one look at your naked aging body and turn away in ill concealed, embarrassed distate. He could turn...
...would certainly be an effective short-term solution, but the long-run effects on the economy must also be considered. A weak American economy is not in the best interests of the rich or poor. Again, the noble desire to help the poor does not constitute real economic insight...