Word: essays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once again dropped in on Chou En-lai's side of the world to pay a surprise visit to the Korean front (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), rumors of cease-fire filled the air in Western capitals. They were given added impetus by a recent Chinese republication of a 1937 essay by Mao Tse-tung underlining the fact that a revolutionary leader must be able to switch policies at a moment's notice according to changing circumstances. Mao's lieutenant, the resilient Chou, had long since proved his ability to about-face. But if he and his comrades wanted...
Arthur Walker Bingham '51 and John Lovell Moore '51 will share in the income from the James Gordon Bennett Prize fund. Bingham's essay was entitled, "The Congressional Elections of Vito Marcantonio," while Moore wrote on "Good Reason, Bad Reason, No Reason at All: A Study of Florida Politics...
Income from the Philo Sherman Bennett Prize fund will go to Burton Norman Bromson '51 for his essay, "Benjamin Nathan Cardozo: An Analysis of Philosophical, Legal, and Political Thought." Kurt Philip Tauber 4G has won the Chase Prize for his thesis, "The Foundations of the Doctrine of Self-Defense." The Summer Prize will go to Karl Wolfgang Deutsch 5G for an essay entitled, "Nationalism and Social Communication...
...Bechtel Prize winner in Francis Barker 2G whose essay was entitled "A Study of Phenomenalism." The Francis Bowen Prize will go to Irving Singer 2G for "The Role of Valuation in John Dewey's Theory of Value." Jacob Warren Gotzels 4G will receive the Benjamin Cardozo Prize of $500 for his thesis entitled, "The Assessment of Personality and Prejudice by the Method of Paired Direct and Projective Questionnaire...
Possibly the best piece in the May number is an essay by Merril O. Young '51 on Dr. B. F. Skinner and his trained pigeons. This should no doubt be of interest to Dr. Skinner if no one else. The style is shoddy, and the slapdash arrangements of sentences displays the typical Lampoon unfamiliarity with the basic elements of syntax. "The Cruise of the Escarole and Romaine," by Douglas B. Bunce '50 about a forty-foot pedal boat is equally badly written, but might be fairly pleasant if you owned a forty-foot pedal boat at the time. John...