Word: essays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...satisfactory to the writer. But those inspired by Kazin to look with greater tolerance and sympathy on a writer's inclinations will find their eyes opened to unsuspected values in Faulkner's art. Kazin writes out of a powerful enthusiasm that compels a like excitement in the reader. His essay is a brilliant piece of criticism as eloquent, as beautifully written as the best of the work it criticizes...
...remainder of the magazine offers a variety of forms of criticism, Cleanth Brooks' essay on "Light in August" being especially noteworthy. An extended review of "Requiem for a Nun" by Albert Guerard seems to me the best that has appeared. Along other things, Guerard's passing reference to "Temple Drake's tragedy (which is that she is Temple Drake)" is a classic thumbnail sketch of the bitch-heroine...
...smiled and said, "Why, they do your work for you." Wrote Correspondent Bucknell: "Bucknell's reaction to said smile: something on the order of a bobby-soxer suddenly being confronted with Gregory Peck." Our entire Letters column in this is sue deals with only one subject - our recent essay on "The Younger Generation." Approximately 80% of the letters we received came from the people we were writing about, those in the 18-to-28 age group. Their volubility seems almost like an effort to disprove one thesis advanced in the article -that their generation is "silent." TIME last month...
...disbanded is implicitly found in John Stuart Mill's On Liberty, to which Mr. Wolff has already made reference. This treatise certainly contains the best arguments possible for the necessity of a "free market-place of ideas," as Justice Holmes used the term. Yet if one critically reads this essay, he will find that Mill does not advocate an unqualifiedly free market-place. He states that "as soon as any part of a person's conduct affects prejudicially the interests of others, society has jurisdiction over it" and that "disinterested benevolence can find other instruments to persuade people to their...
...founder of Rhode Island. He was also a most otherworldly American. In 1652, he published a little book entitled Experiments of Spiritual Life and Health, which contains some of the most beautiful devotional passages ever written by an American. Long forgotten, the book has now been reprinted with an essay by Baptist Historian Winthrop S. Hudson (Westminster...