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...term paper. Knowing that each paper will not count so heavily in terms of a grade, the student is encouraged to write more daringly and imaginatively. He has the chance, also, to purge his writing of that turgid idiom, Scholar-speak, a variant of English considerably less clear and lucid than Time-style...
...steadfast and similarly directed against what he regards as the extremes: for more than a decade, he has championed liberal anti-Communism against both the political left and right. In his latest collection of essays, he turns from politics back to philosophy, offering finely reasoned argument coupled with a lucid style and humane tolerance. A great many readers will violently disagree with his Dewey-eyed "pragmatic naturalism," his belief that the scientific method is readily applicable to moral problems. Some may find his anti-religious skepticism dated or even antique. But anyone who wants to understand the broad tradition...
Resistance, Rebellion, and Death, by Albert Camus. How much the world lost in the untimely death of this great Frenchman is all too apparent in these lucid and luminous essays...
...translation of the New Testament from the original Greek by a committee of British scholars and stylists whose aim was to make the Scripture intelligible to moderns who find much of the 17th century King James version unintelligible. Inevitably flatter and occasionally banal, it is nevertheless smooth and lucid, casts new light on many an obscure passage...
Resistance, Rebellion, and Death, by Albert Camus. Sometimes called "the conscience of the age," the late great Frenchman lives up to that title in these lucid and luminous essays...