Word: essays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...congratulate you on your perceptive and timely Essay "On Death as a Constant Companion" [Nov. 12]. You show that the answer of religion to doubts about death does not satisfy modern man, and that philosophy and science have done no better. I remind you of parapsychology, or psychical research, which attempts the scientific study of phenomena not yet understood by physical principles. Most research done in this field deals with extrasensory perception, but there are also investigators, like me, who are concerned with studies that may throw light on whether or not human personality or some aspect of it survives...
KING RAT. A cunning G.I. scavenger (George Segal) exploits his fellow prisoners of war for profit in Director Bryan Forbes's brutal, unforgettable essay on the morality of survival in a Japanese prison camp. Among those caught in the conman's toils, James Fox and Tom Courtenay struggle most impressively...
...Essay on "What Big Daddy, Alias Uncle Sam, Will Do for YOU" [Nov. 5], you ask, "Can anyone recall seeing a protester burn up his social security card?" The answer is yes. A photograph in The Providence Journal showed a psychology student at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque burning his social security card in protest against having to work for a living...
...appalled at the short memory of those who forget the price of appeasing totalitarian regimes. I congratulate you on your thoughtful Essay, in which you distinguish between those who sincerely seek the right to dissent from Government policies and those lawless zealots who, by their "monopoly on humanitarianism," arbitrarily define God-given morality and seek to attain their ends by Machiavellian civil disobedience...
...lieutenant in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers for four years, resigned to enter a London art school. At first, Laing had a "hairy idea about art." He was a bug on things historical, vaguely Arthurian, and even named his daughter Yseult. One day, he saw a photographic essay on sky diving. The imagery of swooping man below the billowing, brightly colored gores of a parachute combined his interest in the contem porary heroic figure with a desire for strong formal arrangement...