Word: essays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conduct of human beings towards one another," Mill observes in his essay "On Liberty," "it is necessary that general rules should for the most part be observed, in order that people may know what they have to expect." Mill's words are wise words and deserve attention. But just as the philosopher realized that by applying the rule of reason there had to be limitations on liberty, so reason dictates that there must be limitations on limitations lest they become tyrannical...
...uninitiated, a lighthearted essay on such a topic might seem out of place amid the somber rumblings of the London Times's editorial page. But generations of Britons have learned to expect just such things in the Thunderer's "fourth leader," i.e., the item usually fourth in sequence on its editorial page, an unfailing source of quiet, literate, gentle humor. Last week, for the second year in a row, the Times published a collection (Fourth Leaders from the Times; the Times Publishing Co., London; 8/6) of the year's best work of its anonymous editorial writers. Covering...
Supported by $54,000 from the League of New York Theaters, the campaign will run through 1951, Broadway's bicentennial year.* Among the "educational" efforts planned: a documentary film, a television show, a national essay contest, a traveling exhibition of theatrical Americana. Slogan of the campaign: "The play's the thing...
...have to do the best we can talking all the languages at once, like Marx and Engels in their correspondence, like Joyce in Finnegans Wake, like Eugene Jolas in his polyglot poetry, and like Angelica Balabanoff in these poems." But such tedious stuff is flanked by a charming essay on Alexander Woollcott (who was brought into the world by Wilson's grandfather, a doctor), and a hilarious dissection of the atrocious style of Joseph E. Davies' Mission to Moscow...
There is no point to this essay. It might, however, be comforting to reflect on to fact that Harvard still plays ball for fun. And, by the way, people here speak hushed tones when mentioning the courage of Harvard in scheduling Army. They wouldn't dream of it at the University of Minnesota. Not even when the crop ripens. (The 56-year-old Bierman yesterday asked to be relieved of his football coaching duties, the Associated Press reported. He said his request was not prompted by the poor record of this year's team, which has lost six and tied...