Word: essays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...something of a shock to pick up a slim book of 132 catalog-card size pages and find the volume entitled The Art of Loving. Such a title might be appropriate for a collection of poetry or perhaps some parables, but it is hardly a humble beginning for an essay. One has the strange sensation of being party to a Marlboro book sale where the theory of Yoga and the occult sciences of the Orient are neatly passed along in a hundred pages. This sense of condensation and over-simplification is furthered by the division of The Art of Loving...
Farnworth, in an essay for a college and school association, called "Success and Failure as Viewed by the College Psychiatrist" has characterized the college years as ones of tension between biological maturity and the normal impossibility of marriage, of possibly frantic efforts to belong to the new college society, and of uncertainty, as well as ferment, of ideas...
...Manhattan's crowd-pulling Preacher Ralph W. Sockman contributes the lead article on "What My Religion Means to Me," but religion as such is subordinated to fiction and features; e.g., a movie guide with plus or minus recommendations broken down for adults, youth, children and family, a picture essay on a child with a cleft palate, an account of the world's record drop-kicked field goal (63 yards, in 1915, by Dakota Wesleyan's Halfback Mark Payne). Eye catcher is a color portfolio of portraits of Christ, vividly demonstrating how men have altered Christ...
Between marriages she felt forlorn. She wrote an essay on hats for a fashion competition (the industry, she observes with justifiable satisfaction, lost a servant but gained a customer) and once thought of selling tubular steel. Instead, in 1928, she married Ernest Simpson, a sometime member of the Coldstream Guards. The Simpsons had a modest but assured London social position, and at Melton Mowbray (in the hunting country, where the Prince of Wales was to establish his talent for falling off horses) Mrs. Simpson fatally met the Prince...
...senior year he was elected to manage the college football team, and a classmate wrote what happened in an essay called "The College Career of Johnny Rock": "When the team journeyed to Boston to play Harvard, John seated his men on stools at the Thorndike Hotel lunch counter. Here the prices were lower than in the dining room with its linen-draped tables and tip-conscious waiters. Another time, when one of the players asked John for a pair of new shoelaces, he had to answer this one: 'What did you do with the pair I gave you last...