Word: essay
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Ginsberg: Content is visual because you see pictures. According to one of Kerouac's quotes in an essay called "The Essentials of Modern Prose": "don't stop to think of the words but to see the picture better." The sound is something I here in my ear. There are no rules to that, you've just got to like the sound of the words. I wrote a poem in China called "China Bronchitis." Immediately the title sounded funny because of the sounds. It has sort of a bee-boop sound, and the "a" sound in "China" goes together with...
Martin Feldstein, who wrote the Essay that follows, served from September 1982 to July 1984 as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Reagan Administration. One of the leading conservative economists, he nonetheless differed with the White House on several key budget and tax issues, in particular, what he saw as the grave danger posed by large deficits...
...next year, when all the roommates were seniors, the fourth and final member of the suite enrolled in History 1375. Like the majority of her roommates, she realized she was in bad trouble the night before the final paper was due, and so she dredged up the essay her roommate had written three years ago, to such an enthusiastic reception. She handed it in the next morning, but to be on the safe side, she took off the title page, with the little blue whale drawn...
...check the operation of a vague generaliy under fire, take the typical example, "Hume brought empiricism to its logical extreme." The question is asked. "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?" Our hero replies by opening his essays with "David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If this be the spirit of the age in which he lived than he was representative of it." This generality expert has already taken his position for the essay. Actually he has not the vaguest idea of what Hume really...
Just exactly what our equivocator's question has to do with the original answer is hard to say. The equivocator writes an essay about the point, but never on it. Consequently, the grader often mentally assumes that the right answer is known by the equivocator and marks the essay as an extension of the point rather than a complete irrelevance. The artful equivocation must imply the writer knows the right answer, but it must never get definite enough to eliminate any possibilities...