Word: essays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...essay on Mechanism in Thought and Morals, Oliver Wendell Holmes reported how he experimentally took ether and, while under it, believed that he had grasped the key to all the mysteries of philosophy. Still remembering it as he came to, he scrawled on paper the all-embracing truth: "A strong smell of turpentine prevails throughout." G. P. LAYBOURN JR. Minneapolis, Minn...
...past year the Journal ran the Stimson memoirs, the Stilwell diary, the Robert Capa-John Steinbeck Russian essay, a presidential series by Roger Butterfield, articles on bad housing, "The Alcoholic and His Women," and "Why Do Women Cry." By male tastes (which do not matter to the Journal), its "problem" fiction is below the standard of its articles -but it is not for want of hunting for new authors or problems. The Journal took twelve first stories (at a minimum of $750) by budding writers. Its fiction, food and architecture displays are decorated with wide-open, four-color layouts that...
...answers the Literary Supplement of the Times of London in a recent book review, "but then, no other nation has so much in itself to admire." Whereupon, using a collection of essays (The Character of England, Oxford; Clarendon Press) as a point of departure, the Times proceeds to write a forceful essay of its own on the British...
...Another patient was Richard Hillary, who wrote his highly acclaimed reminiscences of Oxford and the war, Falling Through Space and The Last Enemy, in the hospital, left to rejoin the R.A.F. and was shot down in action six weeks later. His heroics inspired Arthur Koestler's essay, The Birth of a Myth...
...could, then transferred his patronage to the Williams Inn. By this week, 29 years later, Morton had decided that his stomach had been a sounder guide than his heart. In the Atlantic Monthly, of which he is now associate editor, Morton paid his respects to Fraternity Row in an essay that the Greeks would probably have several words...