Word: essays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MEDIUM COOL is an angry essay on American society in crisis. Writer-Director-Photographer Haskell Wexler uses the framework of a TV cameraman's experiences during last summer's Chicago convention to render the year's most impassioned and impressive film...
...strike at Harvard. The rebellion within the Roman Catholic Church, the demands by black militants for white reparations have been regular RELIGION topics. An entirely new section-ENVIRONMENT-was organized to cope with the tide of concern over mindless ravaging of our natural resources. TIME'S ESSAY section has examined the clamor over chemical warfare as well as the frustration among the blue-collar workers in "Forgotten America." Occasionally, TIME has registered its own protest-as in "The Danger of Playing at Revolution...
...Beerbohm, a self-described miniaturist, once devoted an essay to a minister who asked a single meek question of Dr. Johnson. But in this age of miniaturization, Brendan Lehane has gone the Incomparable Max one less. He has devoted an entire book to a subject even more insignificant than an 18th century clergyman-the flea...
...Take your enemies and your allies alike one by one," says Ray Mungo in the collection's best essay. "Absolutely Exclusive to Asylum." That's a big change for Mungo, who once took on the whole administration of B. U. as editor of the B. U. News. who founded and then tried to bust up Liberation News Service, who for a long time was the ideal Radical Voice for your TV show or street corner rally. He's still a newsman, but the news has changed: "Strong personal generators can be had for under $35... there is free music...
...best essay, Grief speak, touches lightly the days of the assassinations, the tedious reporting maligning what had been lost, the mediocrity of the industry in a moment of human want...