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...essayist offers a personal look at doings in Dallas...
...lawyer, essayist and. . .oh, yes-a terrific musician...
Over the decades the section has honed the talents of writers who went on to fame, among them Novelist John Hersey and Essayist John McPhee. Recalls Hersey of his first TIME job, which paid $35 a week in 1937-38: "I got to know a lot of famous people, some of whom were dead." McPhee, whose term was 1958-59, still remembers a favorite epithet, "roadside gourmet," in an item on traveling Restaurant Critic Duncan Hines...
Since the invention of the primitive hand ax, humanity has turned to tools as a way of making life easier or work more productive. "Man is a tool-using animal," wrote the 19th century Scottish historian and essayist Thomas Carlyle. "Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all." Computer software is only the latest of those tools, and programmers are only beginning to understand the true potential of software. Says Dan Bricklin, chairman of Software Arts: "We're just really getting started. I think that you will see programs coming along in the next few years that...
...freedom. White's character and achievement must be weighed against the sickness to which his sensitivity exposed him and against the shrillness of those who could accept him only by condescending to him as a humorist. What American letters might have lost in a novelist it gained in an essayist; and what culture might have missed in a hero it found in a sensible, if limited...