Word: essays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kremlin is having its own persistent problems with Russia's dissident intellectuals, who continue to badger the regime to relax its tight control on free expression. Last week the latest and most daring demand for reform came from a prominent Soviet nuclear scientist, whose 10,000-word essay -entitled "Thoughts About Progress, Peaceful Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom"-is being clandestinely circulated among a small circle of Russian writers, scientists and artists. In it, Andrei Sakharov, 47, demands nothing less in Communist Russia than an entirely free society enjoying complete intellectual liberty...
...growing up with borrowed nostalgia," I applaud your most interesting Essay "The Late Show as History" [June 28]. The oldtimers may not have had perfect style, but they had class...
...your Essay "Politics and Assassination" [June 14], you make the statement: "No French President has been murdered since 1932." De Gaulle has survived some six or eight murder attempts. The French are not law abiding, merely lousy shots...
...Your "Need for Conciliation" Essay [June 7] was well done, including the observation that "the steady pile-up of unsolved small problems" creates smoldering anger and an eventual sudden explosion. In addition to the explosion type of labor-management negotiations, we are also extensively engaged in what we call "preventive mediation." This effort seeks to help labor and management deal with current problems so that there is no pile-up to detonate. Problem solving can become a successful habit. Government mediators are aiding unions and employers in over 1,200 such preventive-mediation programs throughout the nation...
...making a movie of Rodin's "Burghers of Calais," starting from the collection of Rodin sculptures left to the Fogg by Grenville Winthrop. In 1965, a graduate student named Michael Fried wrote the introduction to the catalogue of the Fogg's 1965 Noland, Olitski, and Steela exhibition, and that essay has been highly influential in developing an approach to these flat, color-preoccupied, conceptual paintings...