Word: essayistic
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...more flamboyant political leaders of Latin America-the Fidel Castros, the Che Guevaras-are familiar to the point of cartoonist's cliches. But what does the ordinary North American citizen and/or reader know of Latin American cultural leaders? For instance: Octavio Paz, Mexico's foremost poet and essayist-hardly a North American household name...
...Third World is not simply a political or economic concept but a psychological state, consisting of "madmen," "lovers" and, of course, poets as well as "colored peoples" and ex-colonials. Essayist Paz regards "revolt" as "the form of our age," above all for the Third World. But his notion of revolt, being cultural rather than political, broadly defines itself as the impulse "to give otherness a place in historical life...
...just a slight bow to a heavy heritage. More important than Bell's style is his detachment, a quality that he certainly did not inherit. The Stephen family was part of the intellectual wing of Britain's upper middle class; Virginia's father, Sir Leslie Stephen, was a famous essayist and man of letters. Altogether, they were an excitable clan, idealistic, moralistic, painfully interdependent, swept along by unrecognized currents of passionate attraction that stopped just short of incest...
THAT homespun homily by the turn-of-the-century soap manufacturer turned essayist hangs framed in countless offices and factories. It has long been accepted by both employers and employees as an accurate description of their relationship: loyalty in return for wages-love the company or leave it. But what if an employee has inside information about products that have hidden defects, factories that pollute, false advertising claims, price fixing, cost overruns or kickbacks? A growing number of workers are answering such questions by blowing the whistle on corporate misdeeds...
...Your essayist, John T. Elson, surely chose a fine group of "martyrs." Why did he exclude "Dutch" Schultz? Schultz probably did less damage to society than Che Guevara. Elson's notion appears to be that anyone killed doing his thing is a martyr. The liberal-dominated press seldom speaks out now against the suppression of human liberties in countries like Hungary, Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania, but continues to blame the white race for being so long silent and inactive concerning the plight of its Negro brothers in the Old South and the new ghettos. Inconsistency, thou art a liberal...