Word: essays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your Essay on jargon points up one of the most basic problems in human understanding and communication: our misunderstandings with others often arise not out of what we say but out of what others infer from what they think we've said...
...Centennial Issue marks an exception. It has one play, one story, and one critical essay, each among the most exciting samples of its genre that I have recently seen. It has seventeen poems, all by eminent poets, four of them exceptional. Finally, it has four reminiscences of the late T. S. Eliot, slightly redundant, but inevitably so given the limits of such works...
...main descriptive essay--"Tanzania: the Revolution as Reconstruction" by Peter Evans--conveys well the feeling of living in a country undergoing fundamental change. Although Evans' ideas could be better ordered, the loose organization of his essay brings across the sense of a country experimenting with a great number of policies--trying to solve many problems at once. Evans draws a poignant picture of a Tanzanian Development Officer leading the fight against backward traditional customs...
According to his historical essay, "A Negro Separatist Movement," Archie Epps would disagree with Gordon's criterion that is independent of larger society. Epps points out that even a radical American Negro group like the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) had to work through society. For Epps argues that there is an "intricate network of connections which bind Negro culture and history to the larger society and visa versa." The AME had to draw upon Christian egalitarian ideas of the larger society to justify their positions. In parallel fashion, developing countries would face many problems breaking connections with industrialized powers...
...well reply that indeed we do. In the past three years, TIME has run more than 150 stories on one aspect or another of youth, including covers on U.S. teenagers, on London's youthful takeover of staid English culture, on young Americans' feelings about the draft. The Essay section also examined the problem of "Not Losing One's Cool About the Young...