Word: essays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TRIBUTE TO TEAGARDEN (Capitol). An essay on the art of the trombone by the late Jack Teagarden, who played with such expansive charm that his presence in any band gave it heart, soul and a degree of musicianship seldom matched in jazz. The tunes, recorded in the '50s, include such Teagarden classics as Beale Street Blues, The Sheik of Araby and After You've Gone...
Company Wives. Amid general applause for the plan, critics pointed to the 19 "new towns" built earlier throughout Britain, which were supposed to be "an essay in civilization, the means for a happy and gracious way of life." Nearly 550,000 people have already been moved out of urban centers to these garden cities, but many have complained about "loneliness and lack of neighborliness...
...Tanganyika's Tabora Secondary School, he got good grades and was converted to Roman Catholicism, but never made "head boy"-his teachers found him not enough of a disciplinarian. At Uganda's Makerere University, he won first prize in the regional literary competition. His essay: an application of John Stuart Mill's arguments for feminism to the tribal societies of Tanganyika. After three years of teaching biology, he won a scholarship to Edinburgh, and in 1949 became the first Tanganyikan ever to study...
Nevertheless, it's silly to escalate all of the author's thoughts to philosophical ultimates. His specific observations snap with insight. The essay about the place of the car in American life is the best one on the subject: When he discusses the marginal place of sociology with its concern for "underprivileged data," Riesman detects and delineates the subtlest of conflicts and snobberies in the scholarly world...
Sidney Goldfarb offers a non-fiction counterpart to this literary gingerbread in his essay on Mexican braceros, an exploited captive labor force in southern California. We are glad to see this Mother Advocate innovation, and had Goldfarb presented his convincing facts more starkly, his plea would have had more impact. As it stands, he crusades with the polemical assertiveness of a National Guardian editorial, relating "his single moment of perception, a moment so horrifying that all the backwash of cynicism one necessarily collects after twenty years awake in America flushed to my eyes and forehead, shattering all sense...