Word: essays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...essay called "Common Sense and Theories of International Relations," Hans J. Morgenthau has examined both the tendency of political scientists to refrain from considering the basic policy questions about their research fields, and the practical, political effects of their "neutral" research...
...Standing Committee on Afro-American Studies has acquired the qualifications which would warrant calling them "experts" or "scholars" in the field of Afro-American Studies. None of these students has, to my knowledge, a B.A., M.A., or Ph.D. degree; none has published a scholarly paper, article or essay in the social sciences and the humanities; none has held a teaching position in Afro-American Studies in an institution of higher education; and none has a record of a career practical activity relating to Negro affairs...
...scares me. I want to save my soul as a subject of the American Empire 1969, but it isn't an easy fight and the outcome is in doubt. "Salvation becomes almost a mundane, inevitable goal when things are so bad, really intolerable," Susan Sontag says in an essay entitled "What's Happening in America (1966)." Salvation-artistic and moral-is what Sontag discusses in a complex yet ballsy way in Styles of Radical Will, a collection of essays written since...
...this prophetess Susan Sontag? In her Cioran essay she gives us a glimpse: "More and more, the shrewdest thinkers and artists are precocious archeologists of... ruins in the making, indignant or stoical diagnosticians of defeat, enigmatic choreographers of the complex spiritual movements useful for individual survival in an era of permanent apocalypse...
...Heath, 53, who in five years as the Tories' leader has not yet impressed his own party, much less the British electorate. He is another example of the bland, almost face less leadership that seems to prevail in many other parts of the world as well (see the ESSAY...