Paul Johnson
Paul Johnson
British journalist, author, and historian who edited the New Statesman and penned over forty works, including the 1959 novel, Left of Centre, and the 1997 non-fiction work, A History of the American People. He also wrote four works on art and architecture and two memoirs.
NationalityBritish
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth2 November 1928
study outstanding humans
Human beings are infinitely worth studying, especially the peculiarities that often go along with outstanding gifts.
party class pressure-groups
Bismarck had cunningly taught the parties not to aim at national appeal but to represent interests. They remained class or sectional pressure-groups under the Republic. This was fatal, for it made the party system, and with it democratic parliamentarianism, seem a divisive rather than a unifying factor. Worse: it meant the parties never produced a leader who appealed beyond the narrow limits of his own following.
luxury today universal
It takes less than a decade for today's luxury to become a universal necessity.
intellectual tests feels
For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy.
family parent institutions
The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.
mass-transit arizona looks
You know you're an Arizona native when you have to look up "mass transit" in the dictionary.
beautiful children railroads
As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were.
defining scope sync
We were not in sync in defining the scope of the project.
concerns rest
We can probably put those concerns to rest,
churches city council historical permission society
We got permission from the two churches because this their land. Then we went to the historical society and the city council to get permission.
coming few good separation weeks
We'll see in a few weeks how much separation there is. I'd like to have a good idea who the No. 1 and No. 2 are coming out of spring.
move question
The question is now when they are going to move him to another room.
came capable produce short
We came up short and didn't produce anything like what we're capable of,
ebay everywhere found
We don't have a playbook. I found that if you have playbooks, they end up on eBay and everywhere else.