Word: essays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Congratulations on the laser quality of Peter Stoler's Essay, "The Irrational Fight Against Nuclear Power" [Sept...
Spender does not reprint such youthful blunders in a spirit of self-justification. He says, for example, that he is "thoroughly ashamed" of the essay in which he announced his joining of the Communist Party. He also notes that the party dropped him as soon as the essay was published, because he admitted having once doubted the total legitimacy of the Moscow trials. There is a comic poignancy to this imbroglio that pervades nearly all of Spender's political writing. His well-meaning, intellectual support of proper causes always left him at cross-purposes with improper people. He occasionally...
Your TIME Essay on the use of nuclear power [Sept. 25] is the tonic the industry needs and the information the public should...
...reason leads me to accept Mr. Morrow's point in his Essay "On Crime and Much Harder Punishment" [Sept. 18] that a full-scale return to the death penalty would be "ethically shaming and emotionally exhausting" for the American people. The U.S. would have to endure criticism not only from foreign nations, but also from within. Our blood lust could well supersede that of Rome during the persecution of Christians...
...founder-president of the National Jogging Association, I was greatly entertained by Frank Trippett's clever and amusing Essay, "Running a Good Thing into the Ground" [Sept. 11]. However, please tell Mr. Trippett that we joggers will just keep jogging along in the knowledge that we are doing ourselves and our country a service by reducing the cost of health care through our own do-it-yourself health-maintenance programs...