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Darwin's Audubon: Science and the Liberal Imagination.
Gerald Weissmann Darwin's Audubon: Science and the Liberal Imagination Perseus, 354 pages, $28.95, $17 paper
Of all literary genres, the essay is perhaps the best known and most widely despised. This is probably because few people reach the end of their education without having been forced to write essays upon subjects of no interest whatever to them, and of precious little interest to their teachers either. For a long time after I left school the word "essay" connoted for me the instruction to compare and contrast, at quite unnatural length and for purposes completely opaque, the characters of Banquo and Macduff. It was a long time before I wanted to read or ...
- New books.
- Magazine article from: Harper's Magazine Davenport, Guy April 1, 2002 700+ words
...kind of beautiful book that makes publishers' eyes glass over and critics fidget. Gerald Weissmann's DARWIN'S AUDUBON: SCIENCE AND THE LIBERAL IMAGINATION (Perseus, $17) is a selection of essays from his previous books, together with...
- Liberal Imagination, The
- Reference information from: The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature James D. Hart January 1, 1986 700+ words
Liberal Imagination, The, work by Lionel Trilling , published in 1950, collects essays on literature and society in the intellectual tradition of...
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I'd thought from the first reports in the West Coast papers that Jimmy Breslin started cursing out Ji-Yeon Yuh, his Korean-American Newsday colleague, the minute her electronic memo critical of one of his columns popped up on his computer screen. But in Newsday's own account of it Breslin had a day
- Israel & the liberal imagination.
- Magazine article from: The Nation Alterman, Eric May 4, 1998 700+ words
For the past half-century Israeli leaders have grown accustomed to uncritical support from U.S. Jewish organizations and the neoconservative intellectuals whose work they subsidize. It was not always thus. While many American Jews became Zionists before and immediately after World War II, upon
- Eudora Welty: the liberal imagination and Mississippi politics.(Critical essay)
- Magazine article from: The Mississippi Quarterly Marrs, Suzanne April 1, 2009 700+ words
FOR EUDORA WELTY, AN ACT OF UNDERSTANDING--POLITICAL, SOCIAL, OR personal--was typically an act of the imagination. Through fiction, art, music, she sought to comprehend her world. Not surprisingly, then, she examined Mississippi politics through these prisms. In September 1945, for instance, when
- A Spanking Good Book
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Gerald Weissmann November 8, 1987 700+ words
...prose aptly illustrated. Civilization rears her lovely head in its pages, and William Ober has caught her features. Gerald Weissmann is professor of medicine at New York University and the author of "They All Laughed at Christoper Columbus," a collection...
