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BK

Beletrie

6th ed.

New York : W. W. Norton, 1984

1230 s.

ISBN 0-393-95296-7

000069015

[Entries marked with • are followed by Questions] // AN INDEX OF ESSAYS ILLUSTRATIVE OF RHETORICAL MODES AND DEVICES xiii // PREFACE xxi // PERSONAL REPORT // Dylan Thomas Memories of Christmas 1 // Wallace Stegner The Town Dump • 6 // Margaret Laurence Where the World Began 11 // Russell Baker Summer Beyond Wish • 7 16 // Maya Angelou Graduation 18 // Kildare Dobbs Running to Paradise 28 // Leo Simpson Of Cows and Men 34 // Bruno Bettelheim A Victim 39 // Paul Fussell My War • 41 // Lillian Hellman "Turtle" 49 // James Stevenson Off Off Broadway Journal 37 // Joan Didion On Going Home • 66 // Joyce Maynard Four Generations 69 // Loren Eiseley The Brown Wasps • 71 // E. B. White Once More to the Lake 78 // PROSE FORMS: JOURNALS 84 // Joan Didion On Keeping a Notebook 86 // Ralph Waldo Emerson from Journal 91 // Henry David Thoreau from Journal 95 // May Sarton from Journal of a Solitude 96 // Woody Allen Selections from The Alien Notebooks 103 // Donald Pearce from Journal of a War 105 // PEOPLE, PLACES // Thomas Jefferson George Washington // Nathaniel Hawthorne Abraham Lincoln • // Margaret Mead Home and Travel • // N. Scott Momaday The Way to Rainy Mountain // Virginia Woolf My Father: Leslie Stephen • // Doris Lessing My Father • // Jean Rhys My Father // Jean Rhys My Mother • // Studs Terkel and "Bob Patrick" : A Policeman // Norman Mailer Chicago, August 24-29 [1968] • // Calvin Trillin Eating in Cincinnati • // Red Smith Casey Stengel’s Testimony // MIND // John Selden The Measure of Things • 170 // Robertson Davies A Few Kind Words for Superstition • 171 // Benjamin Franklin The Convenience of Being "Reasonable" 174 // William Golding Thinking as a Hobby • 174 // Carl Sagan The Abstractions of Beasts 181 // Henry David Thoreau Observation 189 // Nicholas S. Thompson The Oilman Cometh 190 //

Jacob Bronowski The Reach of Imagination • 194 // Isaac Asimov The Eureka Phenomenon • 202 // William James The Ethical and Pedagogical Importance of the Principle of Habit • 212 // EDUCATION // Austin Clarke A Schoolboy in Barbados 218 // John Holt How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading • 224 // Ralph A. Raimi Opium of the People 233 // Walker Percy The Loss of the Creature • 241 // Caroline Bird College Is a Waste of Time and Money 247 // Adrienne Rich Taking Women Students Seriously 256 // James Thurber University Days • 263 // Lord Ashby The University Ideal: A View from Britain 268 // William Zinsser College Pressures • 275 // William G. Perry, Jr. Examsmanship and the Liberal Arts: A Study in Educational Epistemology • 282 // Wayne C. Booth Is There Any Knowledge That a Man Must Have? 293 // LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION // William March The Unspeakable Words 309 // Robert M. Adams Dirty Stuff 310 // Ralph Waldo Emerson The Language of the Street • 320 // W. Somerset Maugham Lucidity, Simplicity, Euphony • 321 // Wayne C. Booth Boring from Within: The Art of the Freshman // Essay • 327 // Lewis Thomas Notes on Punctuation 339 // PROSE FORMS: AN ALBUM OF STYLES // Roger Ascham The Wind 342 // Francis Bacon Of Revenge 343 // John Donne Men Are Sleeping Prisoners 344 // Samuel Johnson The Pyramids 545 // Laurence Sterne Of Door Hinges and Life in // General 345 // Charles Lamb The Two Races of Men 346 // Thomas De Quincey Literature of // Knowledge and Literature of Power 347 // John Henry Newman Knowledge and Virtue 348 // Matthew Arnold Culture 349 // Walter Pater The Mona Lisa 350 // James Thurber A Dog’s Eye View of Man 350 // E. B. White Progress and Change 351 // Toni Morrison Three Merry Gargoyles 352 // Joyce Cary Art and Education 353 // John Steinbeck The Danger of Small Things 354 // John Updike Beer Can 354 //

Tom Wolfe The Legend of Junior Johnson 355 // Robert Pirsig Concrete, Brick, and Neon 356 // John McPhee The Grizzly 357 // D. Keith Mano How to Keep from Getting Mugged 359 // Anonymous Guidelines for Equal Treatment of the Sexes in McGraw-Hill Book Company Publications • 360 // Joseph Epstein The Ephemeral Verities • 572 // Erich Fromm The Nature of Symbolic Language 580 // George Orwell Politics and the English Language • 587 // SIGNS OF THE TIMES // Wendell Berry Home of the Free 399 // Ada Louise Huxtable Modern-Life Battle: Conquering Clutter 402 // Fran Lebowitz The Sound of Music: Enough Already • 405 // Michael J. Arlen The Lame Deer 408 // Edward Bunker Let’s End the Dope War: A junkie’s View of // the Quagmire • 416 // Carolyn G. Heilbrun Three Changes 425 // Adrienne Rich When We Dead Awaken: Writing as ReVision • 428 // Betty Rollin Motherhood: Who Needs It? 441 // Herb Goldberg In Harness: The Male Condition • 451 // S. J. Perelman The Machismo Mystique • 457 // Lewis Thomas On Magic in Medicine • 462 // Jessica Mitford Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain 466 // John Kenneth Galbraith The Confident Speculators 473 // Anthony Burgess Is America Falling Apart? • 478 // Jonathan Schell The Destructive Power of a One-Megaton Bombon New York City 484 // Garrison Keillor The Tower Project 490 // HUMAN NATURE // Harold Fromm From Transcendence to Obsolescence: A Route // Map • 492 // Jerome S. Bruner Freud and the Image of Man 501 // Anthony Burgess Our Bedfellow, the Marquis de Sade 508 // Jeremy Bernstein Who Was Christy Mathewson? • 513 // Paul West A Passion to Learn 520 // Naomi Weisstein Psychology Constructs the Female 531 // James Baldwin Stranger in the Village • 545 // Norman Podhoretz My Negro Problem—And Ours 556 // Malcolm Cowley The View from 80 567 // Lewis Thomas The Long Habit • 573 //

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross On the Fear of Death • 577 // James F. Fries Aging, Natural Death, and the Compression of Morbidity • 585 // ETHICS // James Thurber The Bear Who Let It Alone 597 // Theophrastus The Flatterer 598 // Samuel Johnson On Self-Love and Indolence 599 // Francis Bacon Of Simulation and Dissimulation • 603 // Samuel Johnson Letter to Lord Chesterfield 606 // Lord Chesterfield Letter to His Son 607 // Samuel L. Clemens Advice to Youth • 610 // Paul Fussell The Boy Scout Handbook 613 // Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Abortion 617 // Willard Gaylin What You See Is the Real You • 620 // Susan Lee Friendship, Feminism, and Betrayal • 622 // Carol Bly Bruno Bettelheim: Three Ideas to Try in Madison, // Minnesota • 629 // Gilbert Ryle On Forgetting the Difference Between Right and Wrong 633 // Stanley Milgram The Perils of Obedience • 642 // Michael Levin The Case for Torture • 635 // C. S. Lewis The Inner Ring 657 // Erik H. Erikson The Golden Rule in the Right of New Insight • 665 // Edward Hoagland The Problem of the Golden Rule • 682 // PROSE FORMS: APOTHEGMS 692 // W. H. Auden Apothegms 695 // Ambrose Bierce from The Devil’s // Dictionary 696 // William Blake Proverbs of Hell 699 // Benjamin Franklin from Poor Richard’s // Almanack 701 // La Rochefoucauld from Maxims 703 // George Bernard Shaw from The // Revolutionist’s Handbook 707 // Helen Nearing from Wise Words on the // Good Rife 709 // HISTORY // Herbert Butterfield The Originality of the Old Testament • 714 // Henry David Thoreau The Battle of the Ants • 719 // John Livingston Lowes Time in the Middle Ages • 722 // Giovanni Boccaccio The Black Death 728 //

Dorothy Gies McGuigan To Be a Woman and a Scholar • 733 // Chief Seattle Address 741 // John Houseman The War of the Worlds 744 // Hannah Arendt Denmark and the Jews 754 // Edward Hallett Carr The Historian and His Facts • 759 // Frances FitzGerald Rewriting American History • 775 // POLITICS, ECONOMY, GOVERNMENT // George Orwell Shooting an Elephant • 782 // Martin Luther King, Jr. Retter from Birmingham Jail 789 // James Thurber The Rabbits Who Caused All the Trouble 803 // Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal • 804 // Niccolo Machiavelli The Morals of the Prince 812 // Theodore Roszak Forbidden Games 819 // Abraham Lincoln Second Inaugural Address 831 // Thomas Jefferson Original Draft of the Declaration of // Independence 833 // Thomas Jefferson and Others The Declaration of // Independence • 837 // Carl Becker Democracy 840 // E. B. White Democracy • 842 // E. B. White Four Letters on Freedom of Expression 843 // Walter Lippmann The Indispensable Opposition • 850 // Kirkpatrick Sale The Myths of Bigness • 856 // Robert L. Heilbroner Does Capitalism Have a Future? 868 // Jonathan Schell The Boots of Nuclear Peril 879 // SCIENCE // James C. Rettie "But a Watch in the Night": A Scientific Fable 888 // Konrad Z. Lorenz The Taming of the Shrew • 893 // Niko Tinbergen The Bee-Hunters of Hulshorst • 906 // Alexander Petrunkevitch The Spider and the Wasp • 918 // Franklin Russell A Madness of Nature 923 // Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt The Advantages of Sociability 929 // Stephen Jay Gould Our Allotted Lifetimes 933 // Paul B. Sears The Individual 938 // Arthur Koestler Gravity and the Holy Ghost . 944 // Jacob Bronowski The Nature of Scientific Reasoning • 951 // Richard S. Westfall The Career of Isaac Newton: A Scientific // Life in the Seventeenth Century • 955 // Stephen Jay Could Darwins Middle Road 968 //

Thomas S. Kuhn The Route to Normal Science • 975 // LITERATURE AND THE ARTS // John Gardner What Writers Do 985 // Vladimir Nabokov Good Readers and Good Writers 994 // Donald Hall First a Writer, Then a Sportsman 999 // Northrop Frye The Motive tor Metaphor • 1003 // Susanne K. Langer Expressiveness 1012 // Carl Gustav Jung The Poet • 1019 // Robert Frost Education by Poetry: A Meditative Monologue • 1025 // Virginia Woolf In Search of a Room of One’s Own 1034 // Christopher Fry Laughter 1045 // E. B. White Some Remarks on Humor • 1047 // X. J. Kennedy Who Killed King Kong? 1049 // Stanley Kauffmann The Film Generation • 1053 // Aaron Copland How We Listen 1060 // Edward Rothstein The Links Between Math and Music 1065 // Lord Clark The Blot and the Diagram • 1070 // Joseph Wood Krutch Modern Painting • 1086 // Peter Blake The Fantasy of the Skyscraper 1091 // PROSE FORMS: PARABLES 1104 // Aesop The Frogs Desiring a King 1107 // Plato The Allegory of the Cave 1107 // Jonathan Swift The Spider and the Bee 1111 // James Thurber The Glass in the Field 1113 // Jesus Parables of the Kingdom 1114 // Franz Kafka Parable of the Law 1116 // Zen Parables Muddy Road, A Parable, // Learning to Be Silent 1121 // Maxine Hong Kingston On Discovery 1122 // Milan Kundera A Fur Cap 1124 // Cynthia Ozick The Lecture, 1 1125 // Red Smith A Very Pious Story 1125 // PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION // James Thurber The Owl Who Was God 1128 // Robert Graves Mythology 1129 // Edward Gibbon The Progress of the Christian Religion 1134 // Jonathan Edwards Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God • 1137 // John Donne Let Me Wither • 1143 // C. S. Lewis Three Screwtape Letters • 1145 // Spren Kierkegaard The Knight of Faith 1151 // Paul Tillich The Fiddle of Inequality 1153 // George Santayana Classic Liberty 1160 // E. M. Forster What I Believe 1163 //

Gilbert Highet The Mystery of Zen • 1170 // Virginia Woolf The Death of the Moth - 1179 // Annie Dillard Sight into Insight • 1182 // Jean-Paul Sartre Existentialism - 1193 // NOTES ON COMPOSITION 1203 // AUTHORS 1209 // INDEX 1219 // ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 1223