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...diving under the Pacific with snorkel and wet suit to spear fish or enjoy the submarine scenery. Often enough, that scenery includes one or another of his sheilas-in-law-the beautiful wives of his three stepsons. The Sydney-born son of a theatrical manager, Holt was a prize essayist and cricketer at Melbourne University, came to the Australian House of Representatives in 1935 and became a faithful supporter of Sir Robert Menzies during World War II. Like most Australians, Holt enlisted at the outbreak of the war-the only Cabinet Minister, he claims, ever to be promoted to private...
...psych" is one of the few esoteric studies that have ever reached "the mass" intact; the popularity of pop-psych indicates a widespread concern among human beings. The very fact that psychology has some relevance outside of academia seems to make it untouchable in the eyes of your essayist; but at least he kept it at exactly two pages...
...Hindu workmen decorate their workshops and literally worship the god in their machines. But the machine does not require worship; it requires hard work, precision and comprehension. Sensing a lack of these, many Indians are pessimistic about the future. "Everyone is' waiting for the Americanization of India," says Essayist Nirad Chaudhuri, "but what they are going to get is the Hinduization of industry." Such critics fear that modernization is by no means inevitable; a thin, progressive upper crust might continue to live side by side with a vast, impoverished mass...
...prize was established in 1947 in memory of Lt. Dana Reed '43. This year's judges were Thomas Griffith senior staff editor of Time Inc publications: Elizabeth Hardwick, critic and essayist; and Mark Shorer, professor of English at the University of California at Berkeley...
...paintings that make Turner look as if he were born only the day before yesterday are those in which, with shimmering veils of color, he fused imagination and reality. A contemporary of Turner dubbed one such work "soapsuds and whitewash." Essayist William Hazlitt called them "pictures of nothing and very like." Yet they anticipated impressionism and even abstract expressionism...