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...party is over, but melodies linger on. From our readers, we have been receiving comments on our 40th anniversary cover story of Lincoln. Lamont M. Jensen of Salt Lake City, who thinks it should be required reading for every Ph.D. candidate, asks, "Who is the individual (singular or plural) directly responsible for writing the article on the individual in America?" Reader Jensen's question is happily phrased, for the responsibility as usual is both singular and plural. The story was written by Henry Grunwald, and edited by Champ Clark. They had the help of three researchers, Margaret Quimby, Martha...
...have also been hearing from many of the nearly 300 cover subjects who joined us in a weekend of celebrations. For them, and for all our readers, we publish this week a special section of text and pictures about the occasion. We have always felt a special relationship with most of our "cover characters," having singled them out, painted them, searched out their life stories from their families, neighbors and associates, and interviewed them at length. We were pleased to find that the subjects often seemed to feel a similar bond. Actress Rosalind Russell is such a devoted TIME reader...
...inhalation of nitrous oxide made Hegelian philosophy some-what comprehensible--wonder of wonders!--to James. "What reader of Hegel," he writes, "can doubt that the sense of a perfected Being with all its otherness soaked up into itself, which dominates his whole philosophy, must have come from the prominence in his consciousness of mystical moods. . .? The notion is thoroughly characteristic of the mystical level, and the Aufgabe of making it articulate was surely set to Hegel's intellect by mystical feeling." The bizarre consequences of the Hegelian system when applied to brute Anglo-American "facts" tend to vanish...
...original. In all the welter and multiplication of books on Israel, hardly a word touches on real social issues. Fine political reporting appears now and then, and there is a constant barrage of rosy statistics aimed at contributors to the United Jewish Appeal, but Cowan gives the reader an unvarnished look at life from...
This daring parable of guilt builds up to a pitch that is frightfully psychological but not very convincing. At one especially tense point, a character notices "a roaring in his ears which could not be the sea." The reader may well reflect that indeed it is not the sea, but the prose...