Word: essays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...journalism's best-known pundit left his camp in Bernard, Me. a little while ago and returned to his ivy-covered home in Washington. He did not have any fresh-caught fish. What he had was a fat, prickly and impressive essay on U.S. foreign policy. Looking a little old, with heavy pouches under his eyes, 58-year-old Walter Lippmann-author of 19 books, New York Herald Tribune columnist since 1931-sat down to put together his thesis, which he called The Cold War. Two secretaries hovered beside him. Western Union stood by to pick up his copy...
Baudelaire explained what he meant in an essay written in 1863, when Delacroix died, and now published for the first time in English (Delacroix; Lear, Crown; $5). To the world, Bachelor Delacroix was the urbane, self-confident son of a prosperous lawyer-obviously gifted, and smooth as silk in company. To his friends, he was "like the crater of a volcano artistically hidden by bouquets of flowers." Wrote the author of Flowers of Evil...
...What if the generation after next grew up without ever hearing about John Smith and Pocahontas or even George Washington and the cherry tree? The possibility bothered Richard E. Thursfield, who used to be a history teacher and now teaches "education" at Johns Hopkins. Last week, in an essay in The Study and Teaching of American History (The National Council for the Social Studies; $2.50), Thursfield called for a modern Bulfinch to write an American Age of Fable...
...Saturday supplement to the old New York Evening Post (later the Saturday Re-view). The author's affections are somewhat frigid and his sense of anecdote lacks pungency, so that much of these reminiscences of a rather raffish and effervescent period read like a sedate editorial essay. His reports of acquaintanceship with people he admires, such as Willa Gather, Robert Frost and Clarence Day (Life with Father) are too guarded and smooth to give any vivid impression of these writers. His sympathies were never deeply engaged by the new writing of the Hemingway generation, and many of his generalizations...
...TIME [June 30] failed to credit Henry D. Thoreau's essay, Civil Disobedience, for the policy of Gandhi. Thoreau, native advocate of the anarchist ideal who practiced it and went to jail, is known to his fellow Americans merely as a "nature writer." His short essay was published and sowed broadcast in the U.S. by fanatical anarchists of the Emma Goldman period without any effect whatever on our affairs. Not until the essay fell into the hands of Gandhi did the seed sprout to shake the British Empire. OTTO McFEELY Oak Park...