Word: essay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When it comes down to labels Robison prefers to be called a subtractionist, "because at least it sounds as if there's some effort involved. And besides, I made it up and I'm writing an essay for the Times on being a subtractionist. I'm going to wrestle with the critics there...
...teacher calls him an imbecile. How could he forget that this summer was different from all the others--the glorious summer of the Liberation? The next time he writes the essay, Cat knows what kind of drivel to spill out: the joy of a good boy who sees the revival of the City of Light, who rejoices at the sight of the Eiffel Tower rising into the sky, the Arc de Triomphe hung with streamers. What with a finishing touch of a quote from Hugo, Cat gets the highest mark in the class...
Fort Benning chants like "This is my rifle, this is my gun; one's for shooting, one's for fun," and "I want to go to Vietnam, I want to kill a Charlie Kong. Kill! Kill!" soon replaced what Kaku could remember of philosophy courses and essay-writing...
...writing in response to Noam S. Cohen's "review" of my recent book entitled Impact: How the Press Affects Federal Policymaking ("Missing the Mark," December 2). There is so much in his essay that misses the mark that I'm not sure where to begin. However, given that I teach at Harvard and that Cohen presumably is a student at the University I think it most important that I set the record straight on the institutional relationships which he mangled so badly, and then mention the explicit purpose of the book which he has misrepresented despite it being made explicit...
Other useful attachments are grammatical checkers and outlining programs. Grammatical checkers can discover some incorrect syntax, although they are far from perfect. Outlining programs allow authors to develop outlines for essays and to then modify an essay's structure by experimenting with various alternative outlines (again, look for an upcoming Hacker column on this...