Word: essay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...book has some of the same faults as the old, but its 661 profusely illustrated pages glitter with sharp insight. Malraux has arranged them in four rambling essays, which cover the entire course of the world's art. The main theme of each essay is hinted by its title...
Today's Scholars of the House are allowed extensive privileges for their own investigations, research and writing--the only requirement, states the University catalogue, is "a finished essay or project which must justify by its scope and quality the freedom which has been granted." Though he is given four course credits for the senior year's work and may receive special distinction or one of the two "dean's Prizes" set aside for this select group, the Scholar of the House attends no regular classes...
...inside out when, and if, he resigns), the system's complexities and red tape have produced much graft. In his Cabinet are 15 ministers, but Dr. Salazar ultimately makes all the hard decisions himself, occasionally lectures government officials, and Portugal's industrial and business leaders with dry, essay-like speeches which he laboriously composes himself...
...loyalty. Postmen knew that much of the protest against Ebey came from local women who had once helped prevent Pasadena's ex-Superintendent of Schools Willard E. Goslin ("A very controversial figure") from speaking in Houston. They had also helped force the schools to ban a U.N. essay contest. But when Newsman O'Leary began his spadework, he found the digging hard...
...admissions candidates will write an essay--in their handwriting--on a personal experience "which you feel has been significant for your education...