Word: essays
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...Vaclav Havel prior to that Czech Republic President's selection as the Commencement Speaker for that year? No poll was conducted to my knowledge, but I'd venture a guess: not many. Seldom has such myopia been demonstrated by an entire staff (minus three) of supposedly intelligent journalists. This essay demonstrates a lack of education, not to mention a lack of tact...
...especially because in a recent New York Times Magazine article, he indicated that he believed that too many black students were enrolled here. Most noxious of all was Mansfield's offhand insinuation that blacks might have genetic intellectual deficiencies. Like most of Mansfield's statements about race, his recent essay was so ridiculous that it reeked of racism. The staff should have pointed out that Mansfield's ignorance and bigoted blather caused this latest controversy in the first place...
Garrison Keillor deftly nailed the repercussions of corporate downsizing [ESSAY, April 22] and validated many of the emotions that people where I work are experiencing post-merger. The nirvanic green world that beckons out there is a place from which many of us unwittingly withdrew years ago. Now Big Business waits quietly in a dark cloak carrying a scythe. It stalks the very elements that made it profitable and yielded it market share--its people who have labored so hard. The parvenues of "new management" will wring out every last drop of dedication from the drones in the name...
...Future of the Race is composed of two essays, one by Gates, the other by West, a joint preface by both scholars and reprints of two essays by W.E.B. DuBois (the appendix also includes a look at "The Talented Tenth" by Gates). In the preface, they speak of the crisis of black leadership and tell us that they, "the remnants of the Talented Tenth," must "assume a renewed leadership role for, and within, the black community." They tell us that what is at stake is "nothing less than the survival of our country, and the African-American people." Gates' essay...
Pico Iyer in his praise of changing seasons displayed a deep fascination for nature and an understanding so lacking in modern life [ESSAY, April 1]. Oh, how has modern man lost the imagination to capture the awesome rhythm of the seasons, of night and day, light and darkness, sun and moon? It's a poor existence indeed if we cannot find the time to stand and stare at all the loveliness and mystery, small and great, that surrounds us--like the coming of spring. GRAY PHOMBEAH London...