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However maladroit he could be in conversation, or maybe because of that, Ted liked to put his thoughts and feelings down on paper. In the early 1970s, after abruptly leaving his teaching post at Berkeley, he wrote a long essay that opposed funding for scientific research, particularly in the field of genetics. (The same points appear in the Unabomber manifesto.) In the hope of getting his essay published, or at least publicized, he sent it to columnists around the country...
Pico Iyer in his praise of changing seasons displayed a deep fascination for nature and an understanding so lacking in modern life [ESSAY, April 1]. Oh, how has modern man lost the imagination to capture the awesome rhythm of the seasons, of night and day, light and darkness, sun and moon? It's a poor existence indeed if we cannot find the time to stand and stare at all the loveliness and mystery, small and great, that surrounds us--like the coming of spring. GRAY PHOMBEAH London...
...TRUDEAU is so successful as a cartoonist--Doonesbury, his definitive evocation of the baby-boomer zeitgeist, appears in 1,200 U.S. newspapers and has won a Pulitzer Prize--that he may be neglected as a writer. This week we welcome him to Time as a contributor of a hybrid Essay form that proves he's as amusing in words as in images. Trudeau has never been afraid to aim at the powerful; just ask any recent resident of the White House. But for his first Essay, he tackles the merely pesky--"Those goofy apostles of gracious living whose catalogs turn...
SEEMINGLY PERPLEXED BY THE LACK OF A "monstrous cause" for such a "monstrous effect" as the slaughter of innocents in Dunblane, Lance Morrow [ESSAY, March 25] noted that "only the vocabulary of evil" could explain what happened there. But as long as social commentators feel they can justifiably use the term nonentity to refer to any human being, society will continue to be plagued by eruptions of violence like the one at Dunblane. BRUCE A. FRENCH Guilford, Connecticut Via E-mail...
...course, reprinted articles are not automatically uninteresting or inappropriate for the handbook. Dean Epps's essay, although it does little more than simply applaud the progress of racial interaction at the College, does shed some light on Harvard's history of exclusion. However, the issues of ethnic studies and Prof. Wilson's decision to come to Harvard are rather tangential to the subject of race relations. The only significant original piece in the handbook is Thomson Professor of Government Martin L. Kilson's essay on last year's Million Man March and black politics. This essay, while an intellectual...