Word: essay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...writing, quality and quality alone is the first critical consideration. In his essay The Simple Art of Murder Raymond Chandler writes: "The detective story, even in its most conventional form, is difficult to write well. Good specimens of the art are much rarer than good serious novels." MacDonald's best work demands our consideration, not because the author is an intelligent man sincerely interested in serious issues, but because he has found in crime fiction a form perfectly appropriate to those interests, and in himself a talent capable of developing that form to a new level of complexity and interest...
...Essay "Divided We Stand" [Oct. 6] attempts to prove that opposition to Viet Nam is in a long and venerable American tradition and should not prevent us from pursuing our stated purpose. But, as opposition to our last four wars has been minimal, we have a 60-year tradition of being able to morally and politically support our wars. This may account, in part, for why we are so troubled by the extent of our national dissent on Viet...
...Your Essay on "Race & Ability" [Sept. 29] should be made "must reading" in classes the world over at the grade levels where it can sink in and take hold before the ugly head of prejudice rears and spews its foul lessons on the unsuspecting young...
...contemporary world is the belief in the existence of "race"; a modern-day carry-over to an older belief in witchcraft-and the resultant feeling that measures must be taken to protect oneself from contamination. The sooner the public is made aware of the facts the better; your Essay was a step in the right direction...
...Each gave fictional form to contrary views of life -Salinger maintaining that youth, innocence and grace are corrupted by the cruel conventions of a corrupt society, and Golding demonstrating in fable after fable that man's heart in herits the evil of his ancestry. Wrote Golding in an essay: "Man produces evil as a bee produces honey...