Word: essayant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Neither reaction, I think, is quite correct. As a considerate thinker, Wilson is quite conscious of the extremity of this position as stated. But he does not desire or expect a reaction of disgust from anyone interested in reading his essay in the first place; the dogmatic force of his statement creates resistance in the reader, who, in examining the idea for its real weaknesses, comes more fully to understand understand the author's meaning...
Westward Ho the Wagons! (Walt Disney; Buena Vista) is Walt Disney's latest essay in gopher realism-a western so relentlessly authentic that at times the script seems to have been written in smoke signals. One of the prairie schooners is a genuine survivor of the Colorado gold rush, the calumet used at the powwow is supposed to have been sucked by Sitting Bull himself. Producer Disney has even hired one of the world's leading experts in Indian sign language, fellow name of Iron Eyes Cody, to teach those studio Indians how to speak their lines. Nothing...
...thing about adopting this suggestion is that it is really no departure at all. For the University has already put into operation the so-called "course reduction" program under which some students are permitted to pursue an approved project in place of course requirements; and certainly the senior honors essay, or thesis, is the epitome of successful independent study. And even the tutorial program, at least in theory, is the independent pursuit by tutor and tutee of a mutually interesting, and mutually beneficial, program of study and discussion...
...thing about adopting this suggestion is that it is really no departure at all. For the University has already put into operation the so-called "course reduction" program under which some students are permitted to pursue an approved project in place of course requirements; and certainly the senior honors essay, or thesis, is the epitome of successful independent study. And even the tutorial program, at least in theory, is the independent pursuit by tutor and tutee of a mutually interesting, and mutually beneficial, program of study and discussion...
Gettysburg was a subject worthy to join the nuggets that Omnibus has been throwing into TV's current season of dross. In recent weeks it has served up a stunning Oedipus (TIME, Jan. 21), an illuminating and instructive essay on the dance by Agnes de Mille. and Leonard Bernstein's brilliant primer on modern music. To do this, Omnibus must virtually ignore the rest of TV's unabashed efforts to please at any price. Such is Omnibus' charter. So far it has spent some $8,900,000 of Ford Foundation funds in its five seasons (about...