Word: essays
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Albert Gelpi, assistant professor of English, contributes a chapter from his upcoming book on American poetry--a significant essay which discusses Edgar Allan Poe with a sensitivity and respect that he rarely receives. Authoritatively documented but still highly readable and clear, Gelpi's writing carries the same enthusiastic conviction that characterizes his English lectures. At times he risks oversimplification for the sake of a point, as when he dismisses Emerson's ambiguity in the ending of "Uriel" as untypical. Nevertheless, the essay delineates the fundamental esthetic polarity (between Poe's and Emerson's poetics) through which Gelpi approaches all American...
...commend you on your fine Essay on student protest [May 3]. In an age of uncertainty and doubt it is all too easy for students to latch on to a certain philosophy and use it as their panacea. Too often this philosophy becomes dogma, blinds its proponents to other viewpoints, and leads them to the all or nothing stage. It is then that the intellectual process breaks down, and a meaningful and productive interplay of ideas, which is so desperately needed now, ceases. I can only hope that both students and administrators will never be afraid to open themselves continually...
...years as managing editor of TIME. Under his editorship, TIME'S worldwide circulation has grown from 3,000,000 to 5,000,000, and the magazine has been enriched both in visual quality and in the scope of its reporting, including such important new departments as Law and Essay. Otto came to TIME as a writer in 1942, after ten years as a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He became a senior editor of TIME in 1946, assistant managing editor in 1951, and managing editor in 1960. He is a journalist of extraordinary enterprise, and the company...
Otto's successor will be Henry Grunwald. Henry is up from copy boy, and has some other distinctions as well. He has written in many departments of TIME (starting in Foreign News in 1945), edited most of them, and been the launching editor for several new departments, including Essay. He became a senior editor in 1951 and an assistant managing editor in 1966. He has won wide respect among Time Inc. editors for freshness of phrase and idea, and a remarkable intellectual depth and versatility...
...secrets even further, appeared the following month in the first issue of New American Review. The fourth and by far largest section (28,000 words) appears in the Review's current issue (New American Library, paperback; $1.25). Titled Civilization and Its Discontents, after Freud's famous essay on the conflict between the individual's instinctual urges and society's demands for restraint, the latest monologue is the freest, funniest, most touching-and terrifying...