Word: essay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...terms of this goal, the successes and eventhe failures of the movement seem unfortunatelylimited," Friedman wrote in a 1970 yearbook essay."Nixon is still planning the patterns for thenation, and his pattern does not seem to beleading to peace. Maybe the entire pattern needschanging...
Joining Jackson as Gates watchers were technology editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt, who wrote this week's story, and assistant editor Joshua Quittner, who contributed the accompanying essay. Together they form a cybersavvy team that has shaped dozens of Time stories on information technology and the computer culture. "I don't know what we'd do without Dave Jackson," says Elmer-DeWitt. "He's our eyes and ears in Silicon Valley...
Tobias Wolff's article was the most poignant and thought-provoking short piece I have read to date on the reasons for our downfall in the Vietnam War [ESSAY, April 24]. I am a Vietnam-era veteran, and I found that Wolff has portrayed masterfully that conflict's lingering aftermath and the painful rift it has left in U.S. society. Let us hope that someday soon, via efforts like Wolff's, the rest of us will reach a higher understanding of the Vietnam vet's ongoing ordeal...
...sculpture From Hand to Mouth, a part of the Hirshhorn's collection, is not a cast of body parts of the artist but of his first wife. And finally, the parallel between that sculpture and Duchamp's With My Tongue in My Cheek is noted in Benezra's catalog essay, though not credited as such by Hughes...
...worst excuse he's ever used: "I'm working out a few kinks in the essay; could I just have a few more days to work on it?" This really means, "I still have to figure out what I'm supposed to write about...