Word: essayistic
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...anti-Harvard attitude of Harvard's Henry Adams, or even reflections on the upstream migration of the alewives, persistent saltwater fish that find their way to Massachusetts streams each spring. These unlikely enclosures come from a man with an unlikely blend of talents: David McCord-poet, essayist and professional fund raiser-who retires this week after 37 years as executive director of the Harvard Fund Council...
Since then, as a lecturer and essayist (Nobody Knows My Name), he has proved himself willing to step on anybody's toes-black or white-in order to get said what he feels must be said about his country. As social commentator, he insists that whites, in hiding behind public matters of housing and civil rights, have failed to face the real issue of racism-private human hate, which can be atoned for only by private human love. As literary critic, he has judged Negro and white writers with equal severity. Much was expected of Baldwin...
...prize, which includes an award of $2,000 to the winner, has been given since 1956 for the most distinguished contribution to scholarship by a Faculty member whose work was published by the Press. Baker's book correlates historical, biographical, and critical analysis of the English essayist Hazlitt. Calling it "large, spacious, and scholarly," the New York Times described the biography as "a great journey where the bypaths are as inviting as the main highway...
...Vaughan, also writes essays for the Star, and recently scored two solid hits in this new department: the Bell Syndicate is syndicating his essays, and Simon & Schuster will soon publish a collection of them, Bird Thou Never Wert, in book form. But once a paragrapher, always a paragrapher. Said Essayist Vaughan of his book title, automatically composing a paragraph: "It fits the two main requirements for a book title today-it comes from the classics and means absolutely nothing...
...Pulitzer Prize for poetry and from 1937 to 1944 occupant of Harvard's prestigious Boylston Chair of Rhetoric and Oratory, a position previously held by such notables as John Quincy Adams and Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland; of a heart attack; in Wilmington, Del. A prolific novelist, essayist and critic, Hillyer was most at home in verse where he deftly combined elegance and gentle irony...