Irish philosopher and Anglican bishop who opposed the materialism of Thomas Hobbes (1685-1753)

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After moving to Berkeley in 1968 and becoming coeditor of Ramparts - a leading radical magazine - Horowitz befriended Black Panther leader Huey Newton and became a moving force behind the scenes in the Panther organization.

Because of this last fact, Gilbert Dasein, a Berkeley psychologist, comes to the Santaroga Valley.

I cross the Oakland Bay Bridge and approach my motel in Berkeley with a quickening appetite for an ample feast of proteins, fats, and green vegetables.

I took more abuse from these petulant linthead bastards during the New Hampshire and Massachusetts primaries than I have ever taken from my friends on any political question since the first days of the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley, and that was nearly 12 years ago.

They turned up the road past the car park, past the Millstream Hotel, then parked near The Berkeley Arms.

Berkeley neurophysiologist Walter Freeman, writing with the philosopher Christine Skarda.

Heliotrope was a paraplegic pharmacologist from Berkeley, beautiful and brilliant, and a bathtub chemist of underground renown.

Sculptured sprays and berries, with leaves of Mistletoe, fill the spandrils of the tomb of one of the Berkeleys in Bristol Cathedral--a very rare adornment, because for some unknown reason the parasite has been always excluded from the decorations of churches.

At a meeting of physicists and mathematicians in Berkeley in 1991, Candelas announced the result reached by his group using string theory and mirror symmetry: 317,206,375.

England in 1817: teenage Cecelia is stuck at home at Rushton Manor, while her cousin Kate is enjoying the spring Season at Berkeley Square.

All through that weary night my uncle and I, with Belcher, Berkeley Craven, and a dozen of the Corinthians, searched the country side for some trace of our missing man, but save for that ill-boding splash upon the road not the slightest clue could be obtained as to what had befallen him.

This idea lay behind the experimental programme begun in the late 1950s by the psychologist Mark Rosenzweig, biochemist Ed Bennett and anatomist Marian Diamond in Berkeley, California, to study the effects of different rearing environments on the brain structures of young rats.

There had to be a whole new scene, they said, and the only way to do it was to make the big move -- either figuratively or literally -- from Berkeley to the Haight-Ashbury, from pragmatism to mysticism, from politics to dope, from the hangups of protest to the peaceful disengagement of love, nature and spontaneity.

Fiona Gowan who happens to be a Berkeley graduate, knows her way around.

Last year in Berkeley, hard-core political radicals who had always viewed hippies as spiritual allies began to worry about the long-range implications of the Haight-Ashbury scene.