Word: essays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Once again, TIME to the rescue. Your Essay [Dec. 5] said exactly what I have been trying verbally to crystallize for months. A little introspection by this country on its gut ills would do much toward world peace. Whoever promulgated the philosophy that any individual who questions the conduct and/or motives of his Government is unAmerican, pinko, etc., is in more trouble than he knows...
...with Professor Perella's explication of the religio-erotic kiss symbolism in Western culture, it should be noted that not everyone has found mutual labial stimulation appealing. To the Chinese, for example, kissing had revolting associations with cannibalism. Even Dr. Freud seemed standoffish when he observed in his essay, "The Sexual Aberrations," that the lips are composed of mucous membrane and constitute the entrance to the digestive tract...
...special section was produced by TIME's Essay staff under the supervision of Senior Editor John Elson. "The Past Decade: A Romantic Era" was written by Edwin Warner and researched by Raissa Silverman. Gerald Clarke and Harriet Heck were responsible for "The Next Decade: A Search for Goals." In their search for answers about the future, TIME's correspondents around the world interviewed experts in all areas of concern. Watching how our predictions turn out will be enormously exciting. But we believe that reporting on events as they occur will be even more...
...George Orwell's chillingly prescient novel 1984, the totalitarian state is seen as a form of organization that is assured of complete, self-perpetuating supremacy. According to Andrei Amalric, a young (31) and as yet little-known Russian writer, Orwell was way off. In a controversial essay that only recently reached the West, Amalric observes that the once monolithic Soviet state is already "distending itself and disintegrating like sour dough." Between 1980 and 1985, he predicts, it will explode in "anarchy, violence and intense national hatred...
...TIME ESSAY...