Word: essays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...diversity of Negro Affairs is necessarily limited, "necessarily" because if there had not been unarticulated radical discontent with the civil rights movement, a new review could not have come into existence. Sheila Rush, a Harvard Law graduate, expresses this discontent in "New Militants," the lead essay. The writing in the piece is full of educated cliches about "tension" and "effective instruments of social change." Behind the cliches is an intelligent and sensitive thesis: the old Negro leadership is unresponsive to the real needs of the Negroes; the young militants are simplistic in their identification of whiteness with enemy and negritude...
Stampp's book summarizes and synthesizes the revisionists' research. Without completely overturning the Dunningites, it significantly shifts their emphases, re-interpreting every major figure and policy of the postwar decade. A taut, provocative essay, The Era of Reconstruction will, like Stampp's earlier book on slavery (The Peculiar Institution), undoubtedly become an indispensable classic in its field...
...also written two books to be published later this year: Religion and the American Mind: from the Great Awakening to the Revolution, and an anthology, The Great Awakening. In 1957 he was awarded the Bowdoin prize for his essay, "Melville and the American Tragedy," written under the pseudonym of Anacharsis Clootz...
...TIME Essay of May 14 should silence many critics of the current U.S. Viet Nam policy. It shows beyond a doubt that the Johnson Administration is correct in assuming the present burden in Southeast Asia...
...Your Essay, "The Other South" [May 7], was long overdue. Your grudging admission that we perform certain functions in conformity with the standards that you sanctimonious people so freely set is appreciated. We think you're improving...