In essays that combine a personal voice with intellectual ambitions, the Paris correspondent of The New Yorker from 1995 to 2000 interprets the details of everyday bourgeois life in a city that had long captivated him.
April 13 , 1663Lausanne, Switzerland February 22 , 1750Lausanne, Switzerland Jean-Pierre de Crousaz, (born April 13 , 1663 Lausanne, Switz. died Feb. 22, 1750, Lausanne), Swiss theologian, philosopher, and controversialist whose greatest importance lies in his letters to a wide range of correspondents revealing the intellectual climate of his time.
Somewhat overweight, bespectacled, Jewish, and an intellectual, Grossman was an unlikely war correspondent.
His father, Constantijn Huygens, a diplomat, Latinist, and poet, was the friend and correspondent of many outstanding intellectual figures of the day, including the scientist and philosopher René Descartes.
Yet what is perhaps most striking, returning here a little over a decade after I finished a tour as a correspondent here, is the intellectual timeout Germany has taken.
Michael Specter, then The New York Times correspondent in Moscow, observed, "Leading intellectuals here consider his oratory hollow, his time past and his mission unclear".
Back in 2007 in Espoo, the high tech suburb of Helsinki where Nokia is based, our European correspondent Mika Hentunen interviewed Tim Frain, head of intellectual property at Nokia, about efforts the giant handset maker is taking to protect its technology.
Many foreign correspondents and "India hands" lost their intellectual confidence and judgement before such diligently manufactured consensus.
Whether as dramatist, historian, reformer, poet, storyteller, philosopher, or correspondent, for 60 years he remained an intellectual leader in France.
In his writing, he showed a depth of intellectual inquiry and a skepticism toward conventional wisdom matched by few other correspondents.
