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...rated notice: Communist Playwright Sean 0'Casey's Drums under the Window, which stirred personalities, poetry and politics into a uniquely Irish stew; Liberal Franz Schoenberner's Confessions of a European Intellectual, which touched more gaily than profoundly on the soul of European man; Tory Poet-Essayist Osbert SitwelPs The Scarlet Tree, which drew pay-dirt from the inexhaustible lode of English aristocratic peculiarities...
Public scrutiny of the doings of politicians has been going on at least from the time of Plutarch, the Greek essayist-biographer, who wrote some 1,900 years ago: "Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say and do in public, but there is busy inquiry made into their very meals, beds, marriages, and every other serious or sportive action...
...Thomas Browne called them "vulgar errors." Said Francis Bacon: "Men rest not in false apprehensions without absurd and inconsequent deductions." As Essayist Logan Pearsall Smith put it, even the most lucid brains harbor "nests of woolly caterpillars...
...advance his Jeffersonian ideas of equal educational opportunity and what he calls a fluid, classless society, Conant has become a vigorous essayist. It got him into one jam with the Corporation. Conant's "Wanted: American Radicals," in the May 1943 Atlantic Monthly, "urged the need of the American radical not because I wish to give a blanket endorsement to his views, but because I see the necessity of reinvigorating a neglected aspect of our . . . development." Conant said that "the kernel of [this] radical philosophy" would be a "demand to confiscate [by constitutional methods] all property once a generation...
Died. Ray Stannard Baker, 76, author, essayist and journalist, friend and official biographer of Woodrow Wilson and one of the last of the "muckrakers" (others: Lincoln Steffens, Ida M. Tarbell), who flourished on the late great McClure's magazine at the turn of the century; in Amherst, Mass. Under the pen name of David Grayson, Baker wrote nine popular volumes of philosophical essays about nature and people (Adventures in Contentment, The Countryman's Year); under his own name 27 volumes about political, social and economic problems and biography. His greatest and Pulitzer Prize work: Woodrow Wilson-Life...