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Stand Still Like the Hummingbird is a collection of essays written over the last 30 years, dealing with topics 1 and 2 and designed to demonstrate that Miller is really a serious thinker. But it may well ruin Miller's profitably bad reputation in the U.S. (Tropic of Cancer, free from federal restraint since 1961, is selling hugely, thanks in part to the police chiefs in some 60 communities, who hound it with a righteousness usually reserved for bookmakers who do not pay their protection money.) A random sampling produces: "Fresh from Europe, the American scene held about...
...funny. But more often, as in the present book, what Miller throws is not rotten eggs but gamy generalities (art is good, materialism is bad). His words tumble along at the same daft speed whatever the subject, but Miller, however good a pillowsopher, does not stand up as a thinker...
...endless flow of ideas and speculations and paradoxes; an excellent historian of ideas. Others may simply write: 'Hegel said this, and it was wrong for the following reasons'; Berlin does succeed in recreating...enough of the atmosphere of the time, and he can make one see why a thinker should have had great influence when...
Shot Down. As they would later with Arnold Toynbee, whose sweeping theory of flowering civilization resembles Spengler's earlier conception, teams of specialists ? anthropologists, economists, art critics as well as historians ? fell upon the cosmic thinker. Toynbee is an immeasurably more learned and more scrupulous scholar than Oswald Spengler, and his Christianity helped him to see not only the possibility of self-rejuvenation in a dying civilization but the hope as well of a spiritual development for mankind...
...Theological says that "he bestrides the theological world like a colossus." Harvard's German-born Paul Tillich, the contemporary religious thinker whose stature most nearly rivals Barth's, has often disagreed with Barth -: "shouting at each other over a glass of wine" -but calls him, "the most monumental appearance in our period." Roman Catholic theologians, notably in Europe, have praised his thinking in terms they usually reserve for St. Thomas Aquinas. Once, upon hearing that Pius XII had paid tribute to his work, Barth smiled and said, "This proves the infallibility of the Pope." More seriously, he insists...