Word: essays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surprised at all the modern interest;he gave little thought to musical immortality. But he was fully aware that he had been the first to describe specific human emotions in Western music. "I have thought it best," he once noted down, "to make known that the investigation and first essay of this genus, so necessary to the art of music, came from...
Professor I. A. Richards' lucid essay, "The Idea of a University," seems out of place among the fiction. A thoughtful argument for returning to Plato's synoptic view of education, this material was first presented at an Eliot House symposium. Evidently the Advocate is reprinting Richards' text to bring it before a more limited audience...
Obviously, this is no field for anyone wanting little more than a cocktail knowledge of his concentration. Even non-honors men must purchase their shorn degrees with a 10,000 word essay, also due March 1st. Anyone graduating with a History and Literature diploma has spent several hours wondering if it was worth the effort, and the usual answer is an overwhelming...
Professor Walsh aims his arguments at a number of quotes garnered from his students at Beloit College. Drawn from essays on the assigned topic: "Why I Hesitate to be a Christian," the quotes range from doubts of Christ's divinity to condemnation of Christian hypocrisy. The essay topic is effective in bringing out indiotmens gods rule the campus. But I wonder whether it doesn't skirt the attitude towards religion most common among college students simply that of apathy. I think most students have surrendered less to an ism critical of Faith than to a vague or abstract interest...
What does Maugham do when he isn't writing about the Hares and the Sadie Thompsons of the world? Often, he admits in another essay, he curls up with a bad book, a whodunit. An outspoken fan of Raymond (The Big Sleep) Chandler, Maugham nonetheless argues that the detective story has been played out ever since readers wised up to, and writers exhausted, all possible plot gimmicks...