Word: essayed
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Wilson's Essay "Crime and Punishment" [April 26] is typical of the shallow analysis and rhetoric so popular with armchair criminologists. Those crimes most damaging to our society, corporate, whitecollar, governmental and organized crimes, are conveniently ignored. The real criminals are not, as Wilson would have us believe, burglars, thieves, or those who have otherwise developed "deformed personalities." The real criminals are those who have manipulated the growing interpenetration of the political and economic spheres of our society...
...following Bicentennial Essay is the seventh in a series that has been appearing periodically, surveying how America has changed in its 200 years. On the eve of the Revolutionary War, many colonists-and not only Tories-feared that if rebellion came, "the bands of society would be dissolved, the harmony of the world confounded, and the order of nature subverted." Crime and lawlessness would surely accompany any challenge to authority, especially one involving a resort to arms...
...there anywhere to turn? In a separate essay, Historian Donald Fleming of Harvard reports on the intellectual war between those who see man as chiefly a product of his environment and those who credit heredity. If, as Fleming maintains, those who credit heredity are growing in influence, that raises some troublesome questions. If the wonderful hope that we can change man by changing his surroundings is fading, what is left but genetic engineering to accomplish what even Adler admits education has not been able to bring about-a thoroughly improved human being...
...essay "Errand into the Wilderness," Miller emphasized the discontinuity between the limited optimism of the first generation Puritans, who hoped their New World settlement would serve as a model for a corrupt Europe, and the insecurity of later generations, who saw their role preempted and then rendered irrelevant by events in England...
...Fauvism and Its Affinities." The title is presumably ironic, since the last impression the MOMA wants to give is that Fauve painting might keep so much as an erg of its old offensive power. "To look again at these exquisitely decorative paintings," writes Elderfield in his admirable catalogue essay, "is to realize that the term Fauvism tells us hardly anything at all about the ambitions or concepts that inform Fauvist art. 'Wild Beasts' seems the most unlikely of descriptions for these artists...