Word: essays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when he throws knives at such favorite targets as Richelieu (and De Gaulle): "Perfumes are best used to cover up the stinks of cunning. La Gloire de France is a perfume." He is sometimes eccentrically decorative, as when he fondles a favorite word (panache, chryselephantine) or interpolates an essay on ancient music or a sermon on international law. However entertaining, the devices are finally irrelevant and intrusive. Their cumulative effect is as pointless as a sword swallower who decides to eat the hilt first because the paste jewels seem so bright and chewy...
...main feature of the cancelled issue, a photographic essay by Paul W. Williams '65, will appear in 329, the current yearbook...
...aware of larger problems than those of the French glass industry from 1650 to 1660; they saw that the European experience was relevant to the economic efforts of Africa and Asia." Gerschenkron refrained, however, from drawing any easy lessons from the older industrial countries; as he noted in an essay on Doctor Zhivago, "all analogies limp." "The economic paths of the new nations will be similar, but not identical, to those of their European predecessors; the differences are especially great in the areas of location and technology...
...handedly he has kept France among the great powers. His political acumen, his sureness of direction, and the legend of his leadership in World War II are the cords that bind the restless elements of the Fifth Republic into a coordinated, going enterprise. Gaullists would claim that a realistic essay of his value to France more than justifies his self-righteousness. Like the late Frank Lloyd Wright, De Gaulle sees no point in concealing his natural conceit...
...provincial professor's 1956 essay went virtually unnoticed-except by some far more influential economists in Moscow who had already been rethinking the system. Perhaps the most important was Vasily Nemchinov, a mathematical eminence grise regarded as the dean of Soviet economists. He saw in Liberman a potential stalking horse for all the reformers, invited him to Moscow. When in 1962 the economy's growing malaise could no longer be ignored by the Kremlin, Nemchinov persuaded Khrushchev to give Liberman's theories a showcase in Pravda. On Sept. 9, 1962, Liberman's "The Plan, Profits...