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Between 1959 and 1963, Wills wrote books on Chesterton, Catholicism and Roman culture, in addition to working on a doctoral dissertation on Aeschylus. During the '60s, his pieces in Esquire and the Saturday Evening Post established him as a journalist of the first rank. His Nixon Ag- onistes (1969) still has the longest shelf-life of any book on the former President. Last year Historian Wills published Inventing America, a fresh look at the roots of Jefferson's Declaration of Independence. The work has already won several literary prizes. A few weeks ago, he was holed...
...Isaac Asimov. Back in 1938, the teenage author sold his first tale to Amazing Stories, a science-fiction magazine. Encouraged, he branched out from sci-fi to fields as varied as his interests: literary criticism, psychology, mathematics, mystery, poetry, humor, American history. Simenon may have written more thrillers, Chesterton more poetry and philosophy, Pulp Romance Writer Barbara Cartland more novels. But no single author has ever written more books about more subjects than Isaac Asimov...
...psychologically unfettered and bursting with creativity. To this the socialists like to contrast "heartless capitalism," with its alleged willingness to tolerate permanent working-class poverty. The reality that the socialist promise is largely unfulfilled is not viewed as conclusive by its ideologues. In answer they would probably paraphrase G.K. Chesterton to the effect that socialism, like Christianity, has not failed, because it has never been tried. Surveying Tanzania's mounting problems, for example, President Nyerere urges patience. "We are like a man who does not get smallpox because he got himself vaccinated," he explains. "His arm is sore...
...child walks in a giant's world. Of course boys and girls dream of transformations into wondrous and powerful creatures, i.e., adults. Of course the tears and truths of the human condition reside within these stories. But there are many truths. At the beginning of this century, Chesterton praised fairy tales because they provided the child a "St. George to kill the dragon." For Poet W.H. Auden, a reading of the Grimm Brothers could serve to "restore to parents the right and the duty to educate their children." Between these two terminals there are millions of valid interpretations...
...Book of Common Prayer is a majestic mainstay of the Anglican faith. It is, as G.K. Chesterton observed, "the masterpiece of Protestantism, the one magnet and talisman for people even outside the Anglican Church, as are the great Gothic cathedrals for people outside the Catholic Church." The Prayer Book has remained essentially unchanged for 300 years. Should it now be modernized...