Word: essay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Essay Question...
...found your Essay, "The Difficult Art of Losing" [Nov. 15], most interesting. There is no doubt that in the Western world the tradition of publicly conceding defeat to a political opponent has been well established. I think Americans have reached a high point of civilization by having made this beautiful and courageous practice an important part of their way of life...
...cool that they did it, but they went a little too far," one B.U. student said yesterday. He felt that the most questionable feature was the cartoon: "An Essay on Eating a Banana In Public," which employed the banana as a phallic symbol. "All the jocks checked out the issue to find out who all the nude stude girls were," he added...
...your very perceptive Essay, "The Difficult Art of Losing," you overlooked perhaps the sweetest sour grape ever uttered: On March 9, 1832, Abraham Lincoln said, "If the good people, in their wisdom, shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined...
Nabokov's prose is elegant and lucid, easy to read, and amusing. He is one of the few writers who can make a reader laugh out loud, even with "serious criticism" like his delightful essay "On a Book Entitled Lolita." In that essay he says, "After all we are not children, .not illiterate juvenile delinquents..."And that is one of the best reasons for liking Nabokov--he treats the reader as a sensitive, literate person. He sets out to tell amusing and moving stories, and this he does. He says, "For me a work of fiction exists only insofar...