Word: rediscoverers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yet even as they criticize, these clerics note that since the church-going boom ended, the nation's great religious bodies have begun to face up to realities. Many pastors believe that their churches will be more relevant, and accomplish more good, with a committed core of true believers...
Lèse-Majesté. Today's trend toward wholesale restoration of time-tarnished Victorian literary reputations may not wholly reverse this judgment of Swinburne the poet. But antiquarians in England are now beginning to rediscover Swinburne as a writer of prose. In the U.S., Critic Edmund Wilson became...
The common cold is largely a man-made disease. To speak more precisely, it occurs only under conditions which man himself has created. I discovered this by accident as it were. During 1948 and 1949 I lived out at camps in the forest near Flagstaff, Arizona, and worked for the...
TRAVELS WITH CHARLEY, by John Steinbeck (246 pp.; Viking; $4.95). Put a famous author behind the wheel of a three-quarter-ton truck called Rocinante (after Don Quixote's horse), equip him with everything from trenching tools to subzero underwear, send along a pedigreed French poodle named Charley with...
But the fantasy-life of the Renaissance was not a mass dream. The American Revolution, the French Revolution fostered great, stirring dreams-confined to history. To rediscover an imaginative form which includes the real and the unreal, emotions and the phantasmagoria, we must look back to our Middle Ages and...