A Thinking ReedAllen & Unwin, 2007 - 591 pagini From quiz kid to Australian Minister for Science, from frustrated school teacher to National President of the ALP, from the suburbs of Melbourne to UNESCO in Paris, Barry Jones has had a prodigious public life. Barry Jones first came to public prominence as Pick-a-Box quiz champion, and from then on he has embraced a myriad of passions and causes. A Thinking Reed spans his remarkable career, from a lonely childhood in Melbourne of the 1930s and 1940s to the fight he led against the death penalty to his crusade to make science and the future prominent issues on the political agenda. He has worked tirelessly on both a global and local scale to rethink education, to improve and preserve our heritage, to revive the nations's film industry, and to build a better Australia. Almost unique among politicians, Barry Jones is held in enormous public affection. And while he reveals many insights into the political process - both the problems of office and the atrophy of Opposition - he concentrates above all on the life of the mind; a mind with deep, passionate and often witty insights into history, philosophy, music and literature. A Thinking Reed is a generous gift from an extraordinary Australian. 'A Thinking Reed is a book that works through accumulation and accretion . . . and in his requiem for contemporary politics, we reach the finale of what we now see has been a symphony, and one with Mahleresque intimations of tragedy'. - Australian Literary Review 'Barry Jones has written the best autobiography of a politician I have ever read'. - Don Aitkin, Canberra Historical Journal 'A Thinking Reed is a mixture of honesty, FUN, common sense and scholarship too. It makes a delightful portrait of a life. - Owen Chadwick, OM, historian 'It is breathtakingly ambitious, clear-eyed but generous about other people Rich and strange - like travelling with Gulliver as he discovers the world and himself in it . . . I don't often hanker for multi-volumed works, but I wished for more all the while I was reading this'. - The Age |
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Pagina vii
... meeting's atmosphere, of the resentments of others. And many of his literary references, which he'd assume everyone understood, made people feel ignorant. That's why I begged him not to quote Pascal in his maiden speech in the Victorian ...
... meeting's atmosphere, of the resentments of others. And many of his literary references, which he'd assume everyone understood, made people feel ignorant. That's why I begged him not to quote Pascal in his maiden speech in the Victorian ...
Pagina xi
... Meeting the Dalai Lama Haranguing Bill Clinton At the Ring o' Brodgar DIAGRAMS Family Tree 12 Crude homicide death rates 1920–1955 95 The 'Complexity diagram' 460 This page intentionally left blank Man is but a reed, xi Illustrations.
... Meeting the Dalai Lama Haranguing Bill Clinton At the Ring o' Brodgar DIAGRAMS Family Tree 12 Crude homicide death rates 1920–1955 95 The 'Complexity diagram' 460 This page intentionally left blank Man is but a reed, xi Illustrations.
Pagina 18
... meeting her at 'Bethany' when she called in for afternoon tea and scones with Auntie Edie. I listened avidly to John Curtin's wartime broadcasts but never saw him. Edie suffered from night terrors. She always slept with a 18 A THINKING ...
... meeting her at 'Bethany' when she called in for afternoon tea and scones with Auntie Edie. I listened avidly to John Curtin's wartime broadcasts but never saw him. Edie suffered from night terrors. She always slept with a 18 A THINKING ...
Pagina 36
... meetings. The Dixons were Catholics, and the combination of religion and gambling was a distancing factor with many self-conscious Protestants.The substantial backyard, in practice, became the territory of the two Dixon boys, Carl and ...
... meetings. The Dixons were Catholics, and the combination of religion and gambling was a distancing factor with many self-conscious Protestants.The substantial backyard, in practice, became the territory of the two Dixon boys, Carl and ...
Pagina 45
... meetings with certain historical personages, from Confucius and Plato to Voltaire and Thomas Jefferson, about whom we always felt a great deal of curiosity and who came to us as our dinner guests in a bygone year', written and ...
... meetings with certain historical personages, from Confucius and Plato to Voltaire and Thomas Jefferson, about whom we always felt a great deal of curiosity and who came to us as our dinner guests in a bygone year', written and ...
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3 Death Penalty | 72 |
4 Quiz Show | 103 |
5 Fifty Years Hard Labor | 130 |
6 Faces | 182 |
7 Bump Me Into Parliament | 226 |
12 Backbench Explorations | 395 |
13 Beliefs | 417 |
14 The Third Age | 443 |
1979 1989 2001 | 475 |
Afterword | 529 |
The Second Coming | 530 |
Lists | 531 |
Blbliography | 538 |
8 Life of My Mind | 259 |
9 Sleepers Wake | 310 |
10 Inside the Hawke Government | 332 |
11 Ministering to Science | 353 |
Acknowledgments | 547 |
Index | 548 |
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Pagina 131 - Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Pagina 76 - What's that so black agin the sun?' said Files-onParade. 'It's Danny fightin' 'ard for life,' the Colour-Sergeant said. 'What's that that whimpers over'ead?' said Files-onParade. 'It's Danny's soul that's passin' now,
Pagina 329 - I must study politics and war, that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.
Pagina 527 - So first of all let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Pagina 275 - Tell all the Truth but tell it slant— Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind...
Pagina 530 - Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
Pagina 154 - God save our gracious Queen, Long live our noble Queen, God save the Queen: Send her victorious, Happy and glorious, Long to reign over us: God save the Queen.
Pagina 317 - In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat...
Pagina 528 - I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on" (Three Novels by Samuel Beckett [New York: Grove Press, 1955], p.
Pagina 530 - Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,...
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