"Isaiah Berlin", on the other hand, is a highly polished effort, which sensibly avoids the temptation of regurgitating Berlin's already familiar ideas, concentrating instead on recreating the man behind the thought.
Mr. Phillipson, however, devotes little attention to these ideas, concentrating instead on Smith's attack on 18th-century British commercial policy — government actions intended to manage imperial commerce for the mother country's prosperity — and his consequent embrace of free trade.
For years, Democrats have focused on the short term, both in mechanics and ideas, concentrating on the issue of the month or the year rather than articulating a clear identity, and preferring to try to rally their own faithful rather than seeking to win over the middle or even chip away at groups now heavily Republican.
"I think it's reading — the whole idea of concentrating and being alone in a room.
He may finesse the anti-gay-marriage amendment idea by concentrating on incentives to poor straights to stay married.
"Instead, we used the opportunity to reflect on what we could become, and we came up with the idea of concentrating on the evolution of man.
"There's such a quick turnaround on the high street, and I like the idea of concentrating on having a few special pieces rather than just being saturated with mass-market stuff.
The idea of concentrating development near transit lines has been tried, with considerable success, in Arlington, Va., Dallas, Houston and Charleston, S.C. "We're seeing a significantly growing demand for this kind of development," said Abigail Thorne-Lyman, director of the Center of Transit-Oriented Development with Reconnecting America, a nonprofit transportation advocacy group.
And the idea of concentrating such epochal yet amorphous power in the hands of a college student must give the insiders of the movie industry, as of any industry, long and serious pause — a pause long enough to cost the film, its director, and its star their deserved awards.
And the idea of concentrating such epochal yet amorphous power in the hands of a college student must give the insiders of the movie industry, as of any industry, long and serious pause a pause long enough to cost the film, its director, and its star their deserved awards.
