Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Third in the series that began with Road to Singapore, this elaborate essay in slapstick is dedicated to the propositions that frenzy is fun and that even a cold-storage turkey can fly if its torso is Lamour, and if Hope and Crosby flap its wings. Neither proposition quite proves...
Virginia Woolf, like James Joyce, is a key figure for an understanding of the direction that fiction is taking in our age. Like him, she has used her not inconsiderable powers in an attempt to adapt the novel to a changed, and continually changing world. David Daiches' critical essay, the second volume in New Directions' "Makers of Modern Literature," is a fit companion to Harry Levin's "James Joyce," which began the series...
...completely successful. If she did not write the novel of her age, however, she wrote several novels that should last well beyond her age, and although David Daiches has not written the critical appraisal, he has contributed sufficiently to an understanding of his subject to make his essay well worth reading...
Economist Peter Drucker has written a long, able, Emersonian essay that cannot be disregarded by anyone who pretends to think about the problems of the postwar world. For it is one of the most provocative treatises on the central problem that bedevils this generation-the politico-economic structure of society...
Painter Duchamp, who once entered a shovel in an exhibition with an elaborate essay on its artistic import, plans to get himself a little studio, paint "if I can get a new idea." Meantime he is working on his "Monograph." It consists of a collection in cardboard boxes of reproductions of his works since 1910. Eventually he intends to bind the boxes in beautiful leather cases...