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ASSIGNMENT AMERICA often veers between journalism and the short story. And it is interesting to realize from this juxtaposition of the two genres, a bastard belonging to neither, how much literature since Hemingway and Edmund Wilson has picked up the mannerisms and styles of newspaper writing. Here, as we read the smooth flow of narratives, the captured regional accents and hestitations of the dialogues, we are almost fooled into thinking that the often abrupt, slightly non-sequitur one-liner endings to the stories may conceal some literary profundity befitting a contemporary short story. Most probably, it was merely the unmerciful...
...pages of A Vindication of the Rights of Women. Earlier that year, she had broken out of a shell of ladylike anonymity to print a bylined edition of her previously unsigned pamphlet A Vindication of the Rights of Man. It was a loosely reasoned but passionate answer to Edmund Burke's reservations about the French Revolution. It made Mary Wollstonecraft at 32 a popular radical writer, whose name was thereafter frequently mentioned along with that of her friend Thomas Paine...
Through 60 turbulent years of American history, the liberal weekly New Republic exerted a distinctive influence on political thought. Its tradition, shaped by men like Herbert Croly, Walter Lippmann and Edmund Wilson, continues today with John Osborne's respected "White House Watch," Richard Strout's pseudonymous "TRB" Washington column and Walter Pincus' lacerating political analysis...
...faith in the dispassion ate application of reason to the muddle of human affairs was no less firm than Voltaire's. His prowess at drawing his tory's sweep from the minutiae of daily events might have impressed even Gibbon. Had they discoursed on politics, he and Edmund Burke would have found themselves on the same aloof Olympian plane...
...Connolly's diary-anthology of essays and epigrams, The Unquiet Grave, won acclaim from Critic Edmund Wilson as one of the best books out of wartime England. After Horizon's demise in 1950, Connolly became a critic for the London Sunday Times. Snobbish and witty, he once said that "the books I haven't written are better than the books other people have...