Word: essayant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More dramatically than headline or speech or essay, the music symbolized an amazing story. In 1953, only eight years after the shame, horror and impotence of defeat in mankind's bloodiest war, Germany came back. It was a world power once more. More than any other, the person who brought this about was the stolid old man who stood in Arlington, visibly moved by the strains of his national anthem echoing among the tombstones. He was Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of the West German Republic, apostle of United Europe, 1953's Man of the Year...
...Write a brief essay on humor and slapstick in Plautus...
Among the many books that took the long view on man's past and his future, two raised enough big questions to keep the cracker-barrel set busy all winter. In a casually lofty historical essay, The World and the West, Historian Arnold Toynbee suggested that faithless Western man stands a fair chance of getting his comeuppance from Russia and the East, but who knows?-maybe not. There was no such hemming and hawing from Physicist Charles Galton Darwin. The grandson of the author of The Origin of Species played the old Malthusian game in The Next Million Years...
...whose philosophical and scientific knowledge helped open up the mysteries of electrical energy to man. The other panel (overleaf) is a fanciful melange of the places (Rome, Paris, London, New York) and purposes (broadcasting music, guiding an airplane) which electricity serves. As Poet Wallace Stevens wrote in an essay accompanying the Dufy lithograph: "It is an exploitation of fact by a man of elevation. It is a surface of prose changeable with the luster of poetry and thought...
...change did not come at once. In 1794 President Dwight of Yale was speaking for Harvard as well when he said in his "Essay on the Theatre" that "to indulge a taste for playgoing means nothing more or less than the loss of that most valuable treasure, the immortal soul." And as late as 1821 the Faculty Records show that three students were fined ten dollars each for attending the theater in Boston...