Word: essays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...speeches begin in 1965, when Grass campaigned for Willy Brandt, mayor of Berlin, then attempting to become Chancellor. In an essay not reprinted in this book, Grass explained, "The writer can become the conscience of his nation when he throws over his desk for a while, and, as a citizen, engages in politics." As a campaigner for Willy Brandt, as a critic of Willy Brandt for allowing the Social Democrat Party to join in the Great Coalition with the Christian Democrats, Kurt Kiesinger's party, and as a president critic of Kiesinger, who took the Chancellorship with a Nazi past...
Unhappily, the Black section is an isolated stroke of political awareness. An execrable essay entitled "A Perspective of the Causes and Concerns of Student Activism at Harvard" begins with the sentence, "A profound questioning of the role of the University in society and a re-evaluation of what it means to be a student within the university have engendered an unprecendented surge of student activity at Harvard." And it gets no better...
...FIXER. Bernard Malamud's novel is the source for this resonant essay on individual courage and political morality. The actors-notably Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde and Ian Holm-all seem perfect for their roles, and John Frankenheimer's direction is impeccable...
...FIXER. Bernard Malamud's novel is the source for this resonant essay on individual courage and political morality. The actors-notably Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde and Ian Holm-all seem perfect for their roles, and John Frankenheimer's direction is impeccable...