| Every day, five days a week, for more thanthirty-five years, Sydney J. Harris has writ-ten a column, usually in eight tight para-graphs, on nearly every subject under thesun. These models of succinctness, rangingfrom rearing children to restructuring soci-ety, have been published in book form--this is the eighth such collection--for oldand new readers around the world. Pieces of E~qht is an apposite title alsobecause a minimum of dross is to be foundin these valuable reflections on the humancondition in all its aspects. Called by CliftonFadiman "America s finest living aphorist,"and by Milton Mayer "the most cosmicjournalist we possess," Harris habituallyreaches a dimension underlying currentaffairs and surpassing headline events. No other American journalist has beenmemorialized in so many hardcover vol-umes of his daily work, reprinted in so manydiverse publications, or anthologized so ex-tensively in college texts. (His essays arestudied even by college students in Japan intheir English classes.) His column is syn-dicated in several hundred newspapersthroughout the United States, usually onthe editorial page, where he provides thediscerning reader with a philosophical per-spective as rare as it is useful. |
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