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Pastimes : A CENTURY OF LIONS/THE 20TH CENTURY TOP 100
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To: Neocon who wrote (1264)11/6/1999 5:15:00 PM
From: jbe  Read Replies (2) of 3246
 
Neocon,

I still feel your list is somewhat unbalanced.

For one thing -- and this is a repeat comment -- I don't see how you can justify including both Hayek and Friedman, while omitting Keynes.

C.S. Lewis and G. K. Chesterton may be among your favorites, but to say they have had that much influence -- especially world-wide influence -- is pushing it. And I am not being unfair to your favorites: I said myself that although in my opinion Thomas Mann was the greatest of the 20th century's novelists, he was not that influential. There is a difference.

Whatever happened to James Joyce???!!! (For that matter, where is Marcel Proust?)

Too many Existentialists. Pick one, any one.

And still too many film directors.

Etc.

Joan

Edit:

P.S. I just found James Joyce, so I take that back. But where is Nelson Mandela? A list of the most influential people of the 20th century is simply incomplete without Mandela, the arch-symbol of racial conciliation in Africa, and of so much else...
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