James L. Cott

The Liberal Imagination

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W ILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING'S mind is like a house, a labyrinthine structure with windows overlooking the soul on one side

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Anthony Lewis '48 marks the events in his career by the deaths of John and Robert Kennedy. "Robert Kennedy meant

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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and

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Personality, not politics, has dominated the 1980 presidential campaign. Environmental, economic, and social issues have taken a back seat to

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I T STARTED WITH a flip of the coin. Jeannette, the strong-willed, pleasure-seeking, voluptuous Southern wayfarer who has come into

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T HE MOON over the Mather House courtyard would delight Samuel Beckett as it dodges behind thick black clouds during

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T HERE'S AN ALMOST MAGICAL land of the imagination where poets congregate, shutting out the rest of the world. Occasionally,

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A NYONE WILLING to suspend disbelief and ignore awkwardness for 90 minutes will find much of Marshall Brickman's new comedy

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Times Square simmers in July. Dodging early morning traffic on what always seems the hottest day of the summer, I

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I WAS SEVEN years old the first time I saw You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown. A friend of mine