Word: essayant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chekov's The Anniversary and Sartre's No Exit on the same program. Both plays are one-acters, but there any parallel between them ends. The Chekov piece is a mad little farce, while the play by Sartre, though also billed as a comedy, is a somber and complicated essay in philosophy. The two dramas, however, do not leave behind an impression of conflicting moods, since the production of No Exit all but eclipses that of its companion...
...Citadel of Learning is neither particularly original nor notably well argued. Two of the three essays are from speeches given last year when the German ambassador was apparently more concerned with tanks than textbooks. They attempt in a rather general way to reassert the virtues of independent research and rigorous instruction. The third essay is written especially for the book, but it cannot be accused of originality, since it consists almost entirely of rehabilitated Conant programs, most of which have been better stated elsewhere...
...title essay is a superb example of intellectual propaganda in that it is aimed at convincing an intelligent audience without the labor of produing a potent argument. Dr. Conant's difficulty is not that he has no reason for supporting intellectual freedom and research in the University, but that he fails to answer the arguments of his opponents...
...worldly counterpart, and prepared, despite the lack of public support, to work for more rigorous training of young citizens, Dr. Conant offers a program. This program is first touched upon when he deals with the problem of technical training, and is more fully explored in the 'original' essay on the institutional structure of education...
...memory of James Agee, and the excerpts from his unfinished and as yet unpublished novel, A Death in the Family, certainly make up the most distinguished body of fiction that the editors have yet presented. On the other hand, there is considerable emphasis on the works--fiction and essay--of the New York writer Paul Goodman, whose writing has appeared in previous issues...