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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wilfrid Sheed rarely nods (a fact that enables him to keep a remarkably long ash on his cigars), and I was therefore astonished to encounter a gross historical error in his essay on the Irish [June 20]. He asserts that the small Irish farmer could not even think about sex after 1662. What nonsense! The fact is that my great-grandfather Andrew Bowen, who was born in 1732, was a small Irish farmer (three inches taller than Keats) and thought about sex all the time. He thought about it with the kine in the byre, with the peat...
Hell on Earth. Penderecki based The Devils of Loudun on both Aldous Huxley's historical essay and John Whiting's play The Devils. The libretto sketches the facts surrounding the torture and execution of a Jesuit priest in a 17th century French provincial town. Sister Jeanne of the Angels, prioress of St. Ursula's Convent, asks Father Urbain Grandier (sung by Baritone Andre Hiolski) to become the cloister's confessor. When the worldly, sensual priest declines the offer, Sister Jeanne has a series of hysterical sexual hallucinations that soon infect other nuns in the convent. Eventually...
...people because they despair that systems can be changed or because they believe that systems will change to fit the change of people's needs. Left-unromantics (pragmatists?) want to change the system to change the man (or perhaps for more abstract reasons, justice, etc.). George Orwell, in his essay on Charles Dickens, recognized the trends, saying, "They appeal to different individuals, and they probably have a tendency to alternate in terms of time." We are now, perhaps at midphase, the most difficult time...
...gather the material for this week's essay on "The Dilemma of Chemical Warfare," Senior Correspondent John Steele spent three weeks traveling across most of the U.S. Despite the secrecy that shrouds most CBW research, Steele managed to visit nearly every installation where such work is under way. He flew over the Utah salt flats to see the vast reach of the Dugway Proving Grounds; he went to the biological laboratory at Fort Detrick, Md., the Rocky Mountain Arsenal in Denver, the scientific offices at Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland, and the huge storage depot at Tooele, Utah...
...paid $3 per day as "consultants" and allowed to dress in sport clothes like the other participants. Savvy and blunt, they provided another bit of vivid evidence that in most prisons society is wasting time and money on a system that is self-righteous, vindictive and ultimately ineffective (TIME Essay, March...