On the contrary.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy
Published: 1961
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Notes: Essays.
Table of contents: title: I. Politics and the social scene: A letter to the editor of politics. America the beautiful: The humanist in the bathtub. Ghandhi. Mlle. Gulliver en Am'erique. No news, or what killed the dog. The contagion of ideas. Artists is uniform. My confession. Letter from Portugal. Mister Rodriquesof Lisbon. Naming names: The Arthur Miller case. The Vita activa.; title: II. Woman : Tyranny of the orgasm. Up the ladder from charm to vogue. The Vassar girl.; title: III. Literature and the arts: Recalled to life, or, Charles Dickens at the bar. Settling the colonel's hash. An academy of risk. The fact of fiction. Characters in fiction. The American realist playwrights.