Word: essay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spielvogel. Portnoy himself blunders about, half conscious of the Oedipal and castration complexes that rule his life. In fact, self-consciousness becomes his hang-up. At one point he pauses over a particular problem to ask, "now, why is that? is there an essay somewhere I can read on that? is it of import? or shall I go on?" Portnoy, with his daydreams and his failures, is actually much closer to that other Joycean hero, Leopold Bloom. The more Portnoy dredges up his past, the more it cripples him. He never achieves even Stephen's nominative freedom, for the mind...
...Your Essay on prisoners of war tops them all. I am deeply thankful to you for saying so well what I have been saying privately. You said it all with one exception-condemnation for whoever withheld the Government's "confession" for those eleven long months...
...Your Essay on Wasps [Jan. 17] and the readers' response, speak volumes about "the great American nightmare." Aren't they all-or shouldn't they all be-Americans, without so subtly and so childishly reclassifying themselves according to who their great, great ancestors were...
...good humor, I must protest your Essay, "Are The WASPS Coming Back . . . ?" [Jan 17], because of your lack of understanding of just who is a Wasp...
Finally, the inquiry also raises questions as to the validity of the Military Code of Conduct (see ESSAY), which requires brave men of conscience like Bucher to endure vicious treatment rather than sign false confessions that are of dubious value anyway. Fiercely loyal to his crew, orphanage-raised Bucher could only be made to sign such a document when he believed his men-his military family-would be shot one by one. Whatever the court of inquiry decides, it is clear that the Navy's investigation will not satisfy Congress. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield predicted that both...