Zen Buddhism by Humphries Christmas (1 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. This is a fascinating issue of ENCOUNTER MAGAZINE, being Number 87, December 1960. It features works by Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Frank Kermode, Michael Hamburger, Christmas Humphries, John Strachey, and more . ************************************** ENCOUNTER 87 - TABLE OF CONTENTS : : On Heroic Leadership and the Dilemma of Strong Men and Weak People . by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. ( on the problem of Dictators and Democracy) / A Bicycle Built for Two . a Story by Nigel Dennis / The Strangled Cry (II) . by John Strachey . Mr. Strachey discusses Pasternak's "Dr. Zhvago" and the problems of literature in Soviet Russia. / Gentleman Impressionists . by Andrew forge . It's about that type of Art . Sickert, etc. / Edwin Muir . by Michael Hamburger . A discussion of the great Orkney Poet. / Vulgar Sociology . Daniel Bell takes on C. Wright Mills / No Stink of Zen - A Reply to Koestler . Christmas Humphries's defense of Zen Buddhism / Labour, Loyalty, and the Left . by Henry Fairlie / An Odd Lot . Irving Kristol attempts, in a Letter from New York, to explain his predicament as an American Capitalist. / A Short View of Musil . by Frank Kermode . Mr. Kermode attempts to make up his mind (and ours) about Robert Musil, the author of "The Without Qualities" / "That Poor Little Swinburne". John Wain reviews "The Yale Edition of the Swinburne Letters" (2 volumes, Oxford University, Edited by Cecil Y. Lang ) / Various Book Reviews and Correspondence. *********************************************** TITLE : Encounter 87 / ISSUE : Vol. XV, No. 6 / DATE : December 1960 / EDITORS : Stephen Spender & Melvin Lasky / IMPRINT : Encounter Ltd. / PLACE : 25 Haymarket St., London / PHYSICAL DETAILS : Monthly Periodical ; 7 1/4" x 10", printed wraps (paper covers), glued ; 88 pages; // "Encounter", founded in 1953 by poet Stephen Spender and author Irving Kristol, was a leading and influential English literary and cultural monthly magazine that covered the arts, literature, history and politics. Its contributors consisted of some of the leading intellectual and literary lights of the day. Melvin Lasky replaced Kristol as editor in 1958. Spender resigned as editor in 1967, and the journal ceased publication in 1990. The magazine, active during the Cold War, was eventually known to be partially funded by the CIA. This hardly effected the quality of thought and writing exhibited between its covers. ********************************************* CONDITION - VERY GOOD - EXTERIOR -- Spine is faded and creased; nicking to spine extremities (more so at foot); cover corner tips are softly bumped, with attendant creasing; surface rub is modest (a few small spots). Displays decently. / BINDING -- Solid - slight lean to the front. / INTERIOR -- Nicking along the fore-edges of a few pages; creasing to top corner tips; soft bumps to top for-edge corners; else clean and unmarked.