Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Industry. Best essay of the collection is E.D. Kennedy's piece on industry, dramatizing the march of monopolies. With John T. Flynn, who ridicules the proposition that Business can govern itself, Kennedy calls for government regulation of monopolies, not their dismemberment. "Let us not," advises Kennedy, "mistake the monopolist for a poor boy trying to get along...
Literature. Clearest, best-reasoned chapter on the cultural impasse of the Left is John Chamberlain's essay. Why, he asks, has the promised "proletarian" renaissance of contemporary fiction fizzled out? His answer: Because writers, with few important exceptions, can no longer find a moral basis for their characterizations; they cannot make up their minds whether to be evolutionists or revolutionists; their values shift constantly with "radical morality, in a world of Moscow trials, undeclared wars, 'Trojan-horse' tactics, and political 'timing' that frequently works out into two-timing...
Sirs: TIME's recent essay-of-the-week on Assistant Secretary of War Johnson contained a reference to the army's sinister "White Paper" relating to the suppression of civil insurrection in this country. Just a fortnight later TIME notes the relation of the transfer of air force headquarters into the Chicago area to "White Paper" detail...
...readers who stay with it come back with a rich historical haul. They get a good idea of what it was like to be a 17-year-old penniless apprentice in Philadelphia in 1723; a fresh account of the state of science when Franklin began his electrical experiments; an essay on the more worldly of Poor Richard's maxims, such as "There's more old drunkards than old doctors," or "Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards." Genuinely exciting is the 200-page record of the growing antagonism between England and the colonies, as Franklin...
...mischief maker, a groper among old bones, the proof of whose defilement is written in a smudge of dirty water upon his face." The word Virginia Woolf thus exorcises is "feminist." Last week, out of deference to her rhetoric, critics refrained from using it to describe her social essay, Three Guineas...