Word: essays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these criticisms are trivial when one considers the book's basic fallacy, summarized in the over-discussed title essay. Miss Sontag argues that the concern of the critic is not to discover the "meaning" of a work, but to talk around it. She never gets around to defining "meaning", but one gathers that she equates it with paraphrasable content...
...essay "On Style" she summarizes her view of art, which obviates interpretation...
...About your Essay on humor [March 4]: You were right to include among the alltime big ones Jack Benny's reply to the robber who demanded his money or life. When I mentioned this old radio classic to Benny recently, he said: "That was our longest laugh. But the one I like best was on our TV show. My trousers were draped on a rack, and when a delivery boy came in, Rochester got a quarter out of my pocket and tipped the boy. Then I came in, hefted my trousers once, and said, 'Rochester, who took...
...energetic juniors have adopted the defunct Quincy newspaper, changed its name and format, and put out a number of issues with a regularity unusual for House periodicals. Other activists have founded the Quincy Drama Society, and have published the Quincy Drama Review. The Essay Society meets without ostentation on alternate Sundays to discuss a topical paper submitted by a member...
Their final achievement record was dramatic. According to standardized tests, the average student gained two years in reading comprehension during those six weeks. After a regimen of a composition a day most could write a decently organized four-paragraph essay. Most had a firm grasp of the basic principles of their next math course presented in the context of the new math. This preview of work to come was especially crucial for several who would be adjusting to previously all-white schools in the fall. The rapidity of this academic development-almost like time-lapse photography in students with...