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"When I announce my profession at a cocktail party, I can almost hear the yawns. When I say that I study black holes, everyone instantly perks up."
Philosophy, William Barrett once confessed, is "a very dubious profession" in America. But in his new book, The Illusion of Technique, Barrett vigorously rehabilitates the profession. For better or worse, he writes, philosophers have made the modern world: "If there had not been those early Greek thinkers who created philosophy...
"The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business."
Well, it probably will wind up doing both. Long accustomed to serving the small percentage of the population that can afford high legal fees, the profession -glutted with new lawyers-is slowly entering an age of providing mass legal services and charging less for them. Advertising on TV and elsewhere...
Gilbert wrote 71 works for the stage, and his libretto for Iolanthe is one of the best he furnished Sullivan. In addition to his usual plot about young lovers kept apart until the end by some silly rule, he filled the stage with fairies, half-fairies and mortals, aimed his...