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...getting on toward 1 o'clock, and still the essayist, who is given to idly wondering, idly wondered: Is it really acceptable to go to lunch at the Millennium Club? He casually asked a colleague whether he was a member, and the colleague said he had been but had resigned. That seemed very high- toned and impressive, but the essayist is not a member, and it would seem excessive to join an organization solely to resign from it in protest. The colleague then explained that his wife had given him no peace on the subject, and he valued peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Small Moral Quandary | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

...Sure I am," said the essayist, all filled with revolutionary enthusiasm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Small Moral Quandary | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

...They can do that with men on the premises too," the essayist said. "I'm for desegregation in all things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Small Moral Quandary | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

...step. Merely another rare bird: the best damned boot-in-the- mud nature essayist -- piscine, avian or human -- in the business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rare Bird Open Season | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

...still looks like a cartoonist's vision of the brightest boy in class. But the intellectual restlessness that has kept Schlesinger circling from academic pillars -- Harvard, City University of New York -- to government and journalistic posts may have brought forth a certain freewheeling agility in the essayist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ad Lib the Cycles of American History | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

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