Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most sincerely appreciate TIME'S Essay [July 16], "Deciding When Death Is Better Than Life...
...critic but a dazzling one-man symposium. Devils represents Wilson the percipient tourist (in an essay on Italy's 16th century garden of sculptured monsters at Bomarzo), Wilson the memoirist and literary gamesman (in a record of his friendship with Novelist Edwin O'Connor), and Wilson the reviewer-who-was-there...
...championing unfamiliar writers perhaps the best thing in Devils is Wilson's double essay on Two Neglected American Novelists- the fastidious Henry B. Fuller, who chronicled the collision of Europeanized culture with a bustling new America in turn-of-the-century Chicago, and the flamboyant Harold Frederic, a foreign correspondent whose fiction looked back on the callow, small-town life of upstate New York during and after the Civil War. In making a case for both novelists Wilson uses his well-known technique of writing criticism that draws on the resources of fiction and history...
...weighty compactness of detail and insight in Wilson's prose, it gives the impression of a broad sweep of scenes and events. The irony is that although Wilson ends by calling for full-scale books on both Fuller and Fred eric the reader of this essay may not feel in need of another word on either subject...
...path of his nationalist revolution is outlined in the concluding essay, a speech given by Professor G. William Domhoff at a University of California student strike rally in 1968. The weapon of the radical is "psychic guerrilla warfare"--non-violent confrontation politics, waged with "unfailing good humor, psychological analysis, and the flower power of the hippie." Beginning with a core of academics and intellectuals, the movement will win over blue collar workers, small businessmen and farmers, and eventually the New Right, another foe of the corporate giants...