Word: essay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This is to congratulate you on the excellent Essay "What If You Don't Vote?" [Nov. 1]. Millions of Czechs, Hungarians and Poles are ready to die behind the Iron Curtain for that very right of a free and unfettered vote, while American pseudo-intellectual masochists agitate for the boycott of the 1968 presidential elections. Shame on them...
...indexed, are biography enough. They testify to the fact of Orwell's acknowledged eminence, and will give him semiofficial status as the Great Survivor of the '30s, as the man who knew what it was like to live Inside the Whale (the title of his famous essay on Henry Miller) and to resist absorption by the corrosive digestive juices of the British imperial leviathan...
...Thank you for your superb Essay on the "everyday activist" [Oct. 18]. Finally, someone has pointed out that constructive dissent can and does exist, that for every militant demonstrator there is a "disrupter for good" who contributes far more to our society than do all the yippies from Berkeley to Columbia. Allow me to speak for the doers of my generation with these lines from the Beatles' latest release, Revolution...
...sermon Sunday was James 1: 22, "But be doers of the Word, not hearers only," and your Essay was apropos. However, you say doers are produced by families, schools, colleges and corporations. Are none produced by churches? Has religion lost all its power and creativity? Has the church become irrelevant, or does our culture only feel that it has? Maybe the omission of Father Groppi and Martin Luther King Jr. reveals more an editor's prejudice than the actual situation. (THE REV.) ELTON W. BROWN Pastor...
...Your Essay, "That New Black Magic" [Sept. 27], mentions that: "Many have felt a vibration of personal peace by crying 'Om!' " This is very true indeed! Occasionally I like to chant "Om, om, om," or "Aum, aum, aum," in a continuous solemn singsong tone; then I feel very strong spiritual vibrations swelling within me, as I am very sensitive by nature. I also tried chanting "Eloi, Eloi, Eloi," in like manner, and it could also give me personal peace...