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Beyond the intern program, TIME supports and encourages young writers and artists through an annual essay contest for high school and college students. Earlier this year, six TIME writers and art directors judged entries from around the country and awarded five $5,000 and three $500 college scholarships to high school and college competitors. The grants were for essays and illustrations that best demonstrated skill at comprehending and discussing topics arising from the news. Of course, crisp and clear presentation counted too. Says Staff Writer Janice Castro, who helped judge the competition: "We were looking for an ability to think...
Perhaps the most persuasive case against government intrusion into most areas of private morality was made by John Stuart Mill in his 1859 essay, On Liberty: "The only purpose for which power can be rightly exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant . . . Over himself, over his own mind and body, the individual is sovereign." The framers of the U.S. Constitution seem to have had similar views in mind when they declared in the Ninth Amendment that "the enumeration...
...seeing that remain central to Berger's imaginings. His eye ranges widely, from Rembrandt to Modigliani to an obscure Russian named Pirosmanishvili, who wandered from tavern to tavern a century ago painting pictures of food as inn signs. Berger begins one brilliant essay by describing how peasants in the Haute-Savoie spend winter evenings carving white wooden birds to hang in their kitchens. This leads him to analyze why the wooden birds are works of art, which leads him to wonder why certain things in nature are beautiful...
...usually called George, who cannot go to his left. He is 45, Giamatti 48, but they seemed as connected by chance as Tinker and Evers, for the dreamy realizations of Will brought home the realized dreams of Giamatti, who seemed to begin exploring this uncommon transfer in his 1977 essay "The Green Fields of the Mind...
...epicene urban subculture, Susan Sontag explained in "Notes on 'Camp,' " her remarkably astute 1964 essay, was reveling in the "great discovery that the sensibility of high culture has no monopoly upon refinement . . . The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself of pleasure." Kitsch is amusing, not threatening. An ironic acceptance of pop effluvia, Sontag wrote, "makes the man of good taste cheerful, where before he ran the risk of being chronically frustrated." Sontag's hip intellectuals did not like cheap science-fiction movies or Fabian: they "liked" them...