...Burleigh Taylor Wilkins The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy’s View of History . By Berlin Isaiah . New York : Simon and Schuster , 1953 . Pp. 86 . $2.50 . Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 BOOKS The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy s View...

... narrative is Professor Morison s own, clear, beautifully written, and relatively free from technical jargon. This particular volume completes the story of the operations against the Japanese bases ringing the Bismarck Sea, a fish weir or hedgehog of posts centered around the good harbor and five airfields...

... of other responses: detachment, self-consciousness, even a touch of irony. In contrast Johnson, abstracted as the sage, stands almost immobile the fox plays round the hedgehog but his reaction is ambiguous: is the shaking of the head a disclaimer of health or an intimation that he sees through Garrick s...

..., beautifully written, and relatively free from technical jargon. This particular volume completes the story of the operations against the Japanese bases ringing the Bismarck Sea, a fish weir or hedgehog of posts centered around the good harbor and five airfields of Rabaul, a minor colonial port which turned...

... la poesia?’ ” (1988), the autoimmune impulses of the poetic are represented in the figure of the hedgehog hérisson[ ] which rolls up to protect itself “and for that very reason . . . may get itself run over.”38 The poetic, Derrida argues, demands to be remembered and so asks the reader...

... rearrangement of desires in terms of the teaching text described earlierinthisessay. The Greek poet Archilochus is supposed to have written ‘‘the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing This distinction be- tween two types of thinkers was developed by Isaiah Berlin into the idea...

...; And the hedgehog s household the sapper unseals. The snail draws in at the terrible tread, But in vain; he is crushed by the felloe-rim; The worm asks what can be overhead, And wriggles deep from a scene so grim, And guesses him safe; for he does not know 440 The South Atlantic Quarterly What a foul red flood...

... the soul shuts itself up like a hedgehog. If you were here, how I would prick you. And again, in a little different phase: I am most unsuccessful in dealing with diffi­ culties, and am always in too great a hurry to get at what is to give me pleasure. Also, I wonder whether her friends really got near...

..., and the chilly mists in autumn. Rain and hail, snow and sunshine fell upon his head as though he were but a wild beast like the frightened 44 The South Atlantic Quaeteely animals that ran across his path from hour to hour. He was the fellow of the fox, the raccoon, the hedgehog, the squirrel, and the rabbit...

..., and green limes are backed up by a row of counters holding tomatoes, red and yellow peppers, purple eggplants, and red Bartlett pears, the colors composed like a painting. Baskets of mushrooms suggest the infinite cornucopia 648 Dart Rubey of products and experience the city offers: morels, hedgehog, black...

... Lover, le Carre s one foray outside the espionage genre. But in the last two books Smiley bounces back to reassume the leading role. Mendel in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy compares him to a hedgehog: You thought, to look at him, that he couldn t cross the road alone. In The Honourable Schoolboy Smiley...