Word: essays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wednesday, January 22 VOYAGE TO THE ENCHANTED ISLES (CBS 7:30-8:30 p.m.)* This essay, which is partially narrated by Prince Philip, examines the strange Galapagos Islands, where the climate permits penguins and flamingoes to coexist in undisturbed splendor along with other primitive forms of wildlife...
...your Essay about eliminating the draft in favor of a volunteer army [Jan. 10] been accompanied by a graph plotting re-enlistment rates against intelligence, I'm quite sure it would have resembled a ski jump...
...prepared by a team of writers, correspondents and researchers, headed by Senior Editor Robert Shnayerson, a veteran of many TIME departments. Shnayerson was long-time Education editor before he helped to start TIME'S present Law section, and is now responsible for editing TIME'S Essay. His writing staff included Associate Editors Timothy Foote and Gary Clarke, and Contributing Editors Lance Morrow, Christopher Cory and Philip Herrera, along with TIME'S former London Bureau Chief Robert T. Elson, the author of TIME INC. The Intimate History of a Publishing Enterprise...
Even before it opened, "Harlem On My Mind"* had drawn brickbats. John Canaday, the New York Times's senior art critic, declared that he would not review the show. "Apparently," he sniffed, it had "no art." Mayor John Lindsay charged that an essay by a 17-year-old Harlem schoolgirl, reprinted in the catalogue and containing a remarkably mature discussion of anti-Semitism among Negroes, was "racist." Apparently as a result of his charges, 60 guests invited to the opening canceled...
Metrical Carnage. Hurled from Pope's mouth, words were sticks and stones, and they hurt. In An Essay on Criticism, Pope skewered critics as those in whom "a little learning is a dangerous thing," and cautioned them in yet another unforgettable line: "For fools rush in where angels fear to tread." In The Rape of the Lock, he betrayed a loving scorn of women-and their suitors, himself included...