Word: assayed
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Even further removed from aesthetic or social sense is Mailer's assay of Henry Miller. More than 40 years ago, when it was bold to praise Tropic of Cancer, George Orwell wrote that Miller's value lay in his very ordinariness: " 'The average sensual man' has been given the power of speech, like Balaam's ass." That is not an inconsiderable gift, but Mailer will not be content with it. To him, "one has to take the English language back to Marlowe and Shakespeare before encountering a wealth of imagery equal in intensity...
...another House production of an opera comes and goes, with flashes of visual and vocal interest but doomed by its own musical limitations. It leaves me wondering what it is that leads talented students year after year to assay the hopeless task of performing major operas in dining halls with hastily convoked orchestras, and I suppose the answer lies in the greatness of the works themselves. But next time perhaps a different approach to undergraduate opera is in order. Some enterprising director ought to yoke together several of the valuable resources available here to amateurs, like the Loeb mainstage...
Think: you too could "run thymidine kinase assay on enzyme preparation from selected cell samples;" you too could be a fire watcher, a book salesman, a horticultural trainee, a budget analyst, or a summer civil servant...
Remember the manifold possibilities--if the thought of running thymidine kinase assay on enzyme preparation enthralls you, by all means go for it. Summers are too spare to squander; soon, its surreal quality will dissipate in a thick breeze. The files at OCS-OCL will translate into experience, grafted, crafted and carved by those who leaf through the binders. Aspire to a tome; accept a novelette. Hope that the thick breeze never loses its consequence, and never eschew the search