It wasn't a chili dog, " Diggins said. "That could have been really bad. "
“如果扔的不是辣热狗，”迪金斯说。“那可就遭了。”
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A good introduction to the works of a complex man, it adroitly places Niebuhr's thought among the 20th-century intellectual milieu that Mr Diggins spent a lifetime studying.
Before he died in 2009, John Patrick Diggins, a respected professor and writer of intellectual history, waded into the Niebuhr fervour with an unfinished manuscript entitled "Why Niebuhr Now?"