Word: essay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sterile Scholarship. A basic manifesto for the movement is a collection of eleven essays, The Dissenting Academy (Pantheon, $6.95), edited by Historian Theodore Roszak of California State College at Hayward. In the lead essay, Roszak contends that professors, pampered by their own rising affluence and coddled by Government grants, have let their research and teaching turn sterile. They gain no professional esteem from lively teaching, find no joy in pursuing a social cause, even lack loyalty to their own schools. Their main aim is to score points within their department or professional society. "Professional politicking and scholarly publication...
...Count the Candles was an "essay" on aging, stunningly directed and filmed by Britain's Lord Snowdon. "Ours is an age that venerates the young," said a narrator. 'The old we tolerate." So much for narration. The rest of the story belonged to the eloquent black-and-white cinematography, the first ever attempted by Snowdon. Among the telling vignettes: desolate faces and palsied hands fighting dinner hour in an old folks' home; Cecil Beaton, 64, describing his "first signs , of , loneliness" and his denture problems; a' Septuagenarian marriage ceremony in which the bride momentarily forgot...
While TIME is not in the predicting business, many of our stories look toward the future. It seems worth noting that our Essay "The Dollar Is Not as Bad as Gold" (Jan. 12), said that President and Congress would soon remove the 25% gold cover for U.S. currency - and it happened two months later. This week's cover story, written by Gurney Breckenfeld, researched by Kathleen Cooil and edited by Champ Clark, not only tells what is going on but also looks into the future at what might happen in the months and years to come...
...Your Essay put some life into this old girl! Why not include the ladies too? JEAN TAYLOR Milwaukee
Life at Cambridge is an eye-opening experience, wrote Britain's Prince Charles, 19, in a maiden essay for the undergraduate newspaper Varsity-particularly at 7 a.m., when the "head-splitting clang" of garbage cans is "accompanied by the jovial dustman's monotonous refrain O Come, All Ye Faithful." After reading that, the Cambridge Urban District Council promptly rerouted Dustman Frank Clarke so that he appeared under the prince's windows at 9 a.m. rather than 7. "I am a bloke who likes to sing at his work," admitted Clarke. "But I think 7 o'clock...