Word: essays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Well, maybe not at the well-wrought sentence or the lapidary essay. But that has never been his aim or his claim. Random House Editor Sam Vaughan accurately notes that "King is one of those rare writers with both a cult and a mass audience." And Barnes & Noble Buyer Ronda Wanderman ungrammatically observes, "King goes beyond horror like Danielle Steel goes beyond romantic fiction." Columbia English Professor George Stade probes further. The King novels, he maintains, "are not so different from the Sherlock Holmes stories, Dracula or Tarzan. We need these guys around, and we tend to read them more...
...highly tendentious article, "Radicals in Conservative Garb" (ESSAY, Aug. 11), Ezra Bowen has wrenched quotations from context and twisted history to attack the importance I have attributed to recovering a jurisprudence of original constitutional meaning. In so doing, TIME has overlooked the central issue -- whether a judge or Justice should interpret the Constitution according to its text, structure and history, or may a judge or Justice set these aside in order to effect his own vision of the good society. The debate is not one of strict vs. loose construction; it is a debate over interpretation vs. noninterpretation. Your article...
...Your essay seeks support for its views in Chief Justice John Marshall's justly celebrated opinion in McCulloch vs. Maryland (1810): "We must never forget that this is a constitution we are expounding . . . intended to endure for ages to come, and, consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs." However, this quotation, achieved by melding two different . sentences eight pages apart, misrepresents Chief Justice Marshall's view. Marshall was not saying that courts may invent new constitutional values in order to keep pace with the times, but rather that Congress may "avail itself of experience, exercise...
...author of "What's in a Name?" (ESSAY, Aug. 18) should not play footloose with the truth. "The famous Miss Hogg" was named Ima by her father not out of cruelty but in honor of his deceased brother, who had earlier published an epic poem of the Civil War, The Fate of Marvin. The heroine was Ima, a paragon of womanhood, equally disposed to nurse the wounded soldiers of North and South. Miss Hogg did not "grow up scowling" but was a good-humored woman of gracious mien and poise, who because of her untiring benefactions to the people...
...very least, fierce tones give a second life to black-and-white cliches -- what better than a heated format for rewarming old chestnuts? But color also has special advantages for dealing in deadpan ironies. Even before the eye takes in the subjects of Mary Ellen Mark's photo essay on Miami, the sheer chromatic punch says that Florida is a great setting for the human comedy. The lemony sunlight, the all too scrumptious blue of the sky: even the elements are in on the joke. And surprise, they make a perfect foil for the elderly locals, who strut with...