Word: essay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Frisoli, who included labels with all his answers, won the Underclassman Award. The Dunster Rock Team, with nine mistakes, received the Team Award as well as a share of the Alan Freed Memorial Essay Prize...
...Your Essay "How America Drinks" [Dec. 29] was enlightening and encouraging to me as a nondrinker of the dry Baptist tradition, and a pastor at that. However, I'd like to be assured that "the average American knows how to handle his liquor" and his powerful car on a crowded highway as well. I'd like to see a freer social attitude so that some might choose to be nondrinkers without pressure by advertising and social custom to get with the crowd. Try to see my thoughts and beliefs as honest and objective and not in the fanatic...
...article totally neglected to put even the slightest blame for what happened on the owner of the German shepherd dogs. Dog ownership carries with it a responsibility not unlike that of parenthood, and since TIME was so careful to point out that latter responsibility in a recent Essay, how could you have failed to recognize that Mr. Ernest G. Floyd's irresponsibility was the true cause of this tragedy...
...Your Essay raises some serious questions about a political compromise with the Viet Cong. You suggest a coalition government and recognition of the V.C. as a political party, indicating that we might be able to "use" the V.C. to stabilize South Viet Nam and to transform the military struggle into a political one. The greatest mistake of the past in Viet Nam has been to underestimate the Communists, whether Viet Minh or Viet Cong. They are widespread and militarily strong -why should we think they would lay down their arms to become the "loyal opposition" in a republican government...
...which Hamlet becomes a ventriloquist's dummy on his father's knee. Later, Hamlet also turns up as the Gravedigger, hiding behind a Latin accent; in this guise he delivers his "To be or not to be" soliloquy, thus turning the graveyard scene into a grisly essay on the meaning of death. The players' dumb show is omitted; instead, Hamlet lures his stepfather into mouthing the incriminating lines himself, until the drunken monarch suddenly stops in horror-struck realization of what he has said. The mindless bloodshed of the final scenes is emphasized by having the players...