Word: foreword
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...responsibility to externals which caused this atrophy (of the artist submerged in an academic society) is in fact the irresponsibility of the individual to himself." This quotation from the foreword indicates the polemic aim of i.e., The Cambridge Review, now in its second issue. The polemic, however, is not directed toward a definite set of ideas; nor has it been adequately enunciated in the two forewords which have appeared so far. Nevertheless, the editor, Leo Raditsa, has avowedly attempted to organize and to stimulate an attack upon "the new irresponsibility...
...Foreword to i.e. is written with a brashness which is both refreshing and immature. Its assertion of the manner in which i.e. will try to "fumble toward some truth" through "the process of recognition and remembrance of sensation" must be admired for its sincerity but condemned for the inherently confused and narrow viewpoint which it entails. But that the editors have provoked a new vitality both in their writers and their audience is undeniable. ALEXANDER GELLEY
...This booklet," the foreword points out, "disregards the matter of TIME'S reporting to concentrate on the manner. What you will find are 'fragments'-sometimes a whole story, but as often as not a single sentence from a story, or a paragraph." Early reactions have been so favorable that I thought regular TIME-readers might like copies for themselves. If you would like one, just drop me a line...
...writes President George N. Shuster of Manhattan's Hunter College in his foreword to Catholicism in America (Harcourt, Brace; $3.75). The new book, originally a series in the Roman Catholic weekly, The Commonweal, has 17 authors, all but two of them Catholic. They cover the substance of many of the arguments a U.S. Catholic is likely to get into, and they do it with frankness and not a little abrasive jocosity of their...
...last the Department of Agriculture has produced a book which should alert the nation's farmers to the malignant and dangerous growth of plant diseases. A comprehensive study with a foreword by Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, Plant Diseases discusses pertinent maladies ranging from "Root Rots, Wilts and Blights of Peas," to "The Smuts of Wheat, Oats, and Barley." The report has not been published merely as a scientific discussion of plant problems, or to indicate how ruinous these diseases could be for the farmers. As Secretary Benson points out, "To me the most startling aspect of plant disease...