Word: essays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...photographic essay, on Calder, by the editor Peter Van Wyck Brooks, exemplifies this tendency. His photographs are artful and interesting but Calder's sculpture is only the unifying backdrop for Brooks' photographic compositions. The charmingly personal article on the Herbert Lee Collection also misses the boat. It will certainly interest all of Mr. Lee's friends, but because the emphasis is on the Lee rather than the paintings, the article will fail to elicit widespread interest...
...best qualifies of the magazine come out in the last ten pages. The reviews at the end, if a little too systematic in their flattery of potential advertisers, competently survey the high points of the current Boston gallery scene. David Howard's interesting and well written essay on Aesthetics With-in Social Form calls attention to the fascinating relationship between the cultural structure of a community and the aesthetic environment in which it exists. Chip Chapel's interview of Alcalay, Georgians, Neuman, which follows Howard's article, is also first-rate...
...After reading your Essay, I can see why my teen-agers seem to be from another world-it's because they...
...Your Essay, "Breaching the White Wall of Southern Justice" [April 15] is a responsible effort to explain a complicated problem. 1 was particularly interested in your discussion of segregated juries. One approach is to challenge them county by county in federal district courts. But this is slow, costly and painful. With Phillip Burton of California and Joseph Remick of New York, I have introduced a bill that would employ federal jury registrars and use a population sampling system to insure that juries represent a cross section. Whatever formula Congress adopts, essays like yours encourage enlightened debate...
...Department would drop the sophomore more essay. It would offer a more specialized historiography course to replace its present survey of the works of great historians. Students would concentrate one of six areas each term--America, Medieval Europe, Early Modern Europe, or a combination of Latin America, Asia, and Africa. They would explore in depth writings about a his- torical event or period within the area...