Word: essayant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That is the harrowing dilemma that Camus sketched in essay form in The Myth of Sisyphus (TIME, Oct. 3, 1955) -the vision of a man in despair who can believe in damnation but not salvation. Yet in this novel there are clues of something else to come. The hero's name, Jean-Baptiste, is intriguing as a wordplay on John the Baptist, the herald of Christ's coming. The Fall is too obviously the novel of a man in mid-quest to be Camus' last word. Perhaps both book and author are best described by the late...
Charles P. Curtis `14, the present vice president of the Harvard Chapter of the Society, has presented another aspect of the development of the society in a sholarly essay entitled "Liquor and Learning in Harvard College...
Wilson cannot imagine that some of his remarks will be swallowed easily. In his essay on sex, after propounding the wisdom of selective breeding through artificial insemination, he closes: "Do not say that you turn in distaste from a selection so calculated and conscious, which does not depend on 'the heart.' In how many marriages and liasons in the society we actually inhabit does no calculation enter or the heart play a cardinal role?" This is necessarily repugnant to those of young enthusiasms--perhaps of healthy emotional enthusiasms. But Wilson does not demand that it be eaten; he asks only...
Although Lionel Trilling's third collection of essay is, in deed, a gathering of fugitive pieces with little collective raison d'etre except the profits which he and the Beacon Press will reap from bringing them to a new audience, nevertheless they display Trilling as a man of letters and a critical influence, perhaps more clearly than any of his previous collections. Even in the pieces which can only be read intelligently when the reader knows the subject matter, the reader discovers a critic of remarkable integrity and perception. In most of the collection, moreover, the subject matter, the reader...
Some of the graders felt that poor writing tended to lower grades even though the reader tried to be objective. One Economics section man said that he had encountered "some so bad that you're unsure whether your'e doing justice to the answer," since an essay seems more coherent if it can be read without stopping to figure out the words...