Damon Linker chooses the truculence approach in his review (Aug. 1) of two recent books, one a biography of Norman Podhoretz, the other a history of Commentary, the monthly magazine that under Podhoretz's 35 years of superbly intelligent editorship won national intellectual eminence and influence.
We cannot, therefore, confirm that a pronounced inclination in the articular eminence can influence the development of the TMJ.
"This is a competition for pre-eminence and influence in Asia," Mr. Turnell said.
There was wealth, eminence, and political influence on both sides; a symmetry in the families' associations with leading colleges (Wentworth's father was a benefactor of the Harvard Divinity School); and a shared culture of civility and introspection.
Jacques Dupin, a poet, art critic and cultural eminence in France whose influence straddled the avant-garde literary world and the commercial market in paintings and sculptures by major 20th-century artists, died on Oct. 27 at his home in Paris.
Yet Averroës pursued his philosophical quest in the face of strong opposition from the mutakallimūn, who, together with the jurists, occupied a position of eminence and of great influence over the fanatical masses.
Beijing was so overrun with visiting MacArthur geniuses and Nobel laureates and Silicon Valley eminences, all angling to influence China's climate-change policy, that I had to triage conferences.
Phil Chamberlain Colerne, Wilts In the light of the US government's divisive global strategies, there has never been a better time for studying how a nation has achieved its pre-eminence and how its influence can be resisted.
This is a difficult time in which to present an account — and what amounts to a defense — of the West's rise to pre-eminence and its unequaled influence in shaping the world today.
In my Sunday column this week, on the respective careers of Andrew Breitbart and James Q . Wilson I pushed back against the tendency to see the shift to a more partisan and sensationalistic media (which empowers figures like Breitbart, Maher, Olbermann, etc., and arguably diminishes the potential influence of genuine eminences like Wilson) as a straightforward story of cultural decline.
