Word: essays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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AMERICA AND AMERICANS (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). From John Steinbeck's recent book of the same title comes this picture essay on the paradoxes of America "complicated, bullheaded, shy, cruel, boisterous, unspeakably dear and very beautiful." Henry Fonda narrates...
Even while playing football, Bersin has maintained an "A" average and had only an occasional "B" to mar his record. He won the James B. Conant Award for the best essay on a subject of scientific interest...
...that "sounds as if it had been written by a reader for readers, by a human being for human beings," instead of by "a syndicate of encyclopedias for an audience of International Business Machines." He could dismiss the pedantries of his associates with a single slash. He ends an essay on Whitman: "I have said so little about Whitman's faults because they are so plain: baby critics who have barely learned to complain of the lack of ambiguity in Peter Rabbit can tell you what is wrong with Leaves of Grass...
...George M. Taber, 25, is a 1964 graduate of Georgetown University, later studied at the College of Europe in Bruges, where he started to work for us as a stringer. His area of reporting is especially wide-ranging since he is assigned to Essay...
...about one-third of them Negro. Neighborhood College teachers are impressed by the zeal and intelligence of their students. Historian Williams, who teaches the same course in Western civilization at the college that he gives at Cornell, finds that "the older housewives can write a literate essay-which is more than I can say for most Cornell freshmen...