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...Messiah Zoher Abdoolcarim's essay "Taiwan's New Promise" is too flattering to Taiwan's newly elected President, Ma Ying-jeou [April 7]. Ma is more like a celebrity than a President, and his rosy policies announced during the election will be harmful to Taiwan and helpful to China's ambition to annex Taiwan. Even though the Bush Administration is satisfied with the peaceful results of the election in Taiwan, it ignores the tragedy that a pro-China Ma could bring about on the island. Ni Kuo-jung, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Writers are sensitive souls--generally intelligent and hardworking but easily bruised. Treat them right, though, and you will be rewarded. Writers shape words into luminous sentences and the sentences into exquisitely crafted paragraphs. They weave the paragraphs together into a near perfect article, essay or review. Then their writing--their baby--is ripped untimely from their computers (well, maybe only a couple of weeks overdue) and turned over to editors. These are idiots, most of them, and brutes, with tin ears, the aesthetic sensitivity of insects, deeply held erroneous beliefs about your topic and a maddening conviction that any article...
Clarke’s work consistently pushed the boundaries of science fiction through vivid depictions of imagined worlds. His legacy is perhaps best described in his own words, penned in a 1962 essay: “The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible...
...Charlton Heston is an axiom," the French film critic Michel Mourlet famously wrote in a 1960 Cahiers du Cinema essay so acute and fervid that we have to quote a bit more of it. "He constitutes a tragedy in himself, his presence in any film being enough to instill beauty. The pent-up violence expressed by the somber phosphorescence of his eyes, his eagle's profile, the imperious arch of his eyebrows, the hard, bitter curve of his lips, the stupendous strength of his torso - this is what he has been given, and what not even the worst of directors...
...English—not the nationality, which is implied by its placement alongside “American” in the current department name, but the language. This may appear insignificant, but there are larger principles at stake here. Without precision, language loses its meaning. In his famous essay, Politics and the English Language, George Orwell commented that a lack of carefully chosen diction and imagery marked the fundamental problem with modern writing. By finding a name that more accurately represents its function, Harvard’s English department places itself at the forefront of the battle against careless usage...