Word: essayant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...needed to complete Vanderlyn's good fortune was a New York reputation to match the fame he enjoyed in Paris. He returned in 1815, confidently bearing with him the pictures Paris had admired. Among them was the slickest nude yet painted by an American, a solid, polished essay in sensuality, made respectable, he hoped, by its title: Ariadne. But Ariadne shocked his staid American contemporaries, who denounced the picture as an example of European depravity...
Because of its size and power, the service has inevitably stirred up controversy. For one thing, some educators deplored the passing of the old essay question ("Discuss the consequences of the Dred Scott decision") in favor of the objective type ("The chief justice in the Dred Scott Case was: 1. John C. Calhoun. 2. Roger B. Taney. 3. William Lloyd Garrison, 4. Salmon P. Chase, 5. Stephen A. Douglas"). The new tests, said the critics, might be able to determine a student's superficial knowledge of a subject, but they gave no indication of whether he could think...
Beyond Facts. No one is more aware of that problem than Henry Chauncey and his 90 experts. Though the E.T.S. does make up essay examinations, Chauncey feels that in such a huge undertaking as the college boards, for instance, the objective question not only covers more ground but can be fully as searching as the essay. Before devising each test, the E.T.S. staff holds long conferences with teachers, professors and experts on the subjects in question. They draw up lists of possible problems, test them out on guinea-pig students, gradually weed out those that are too easy, too confusing...
...after 23 had their say, Bulganin got up to cry a halt. Most of the ideas from the floor were "fine proposals," said Bulganin, and "the time will come when we will have everything." but for now most of them were "unrealistic." That ended their little essay into debating. According to Radio Moscow, "the Deputies warmly cheered Premier Bulganin," and then passed his pension law unanimously. Next day the Supreme Soviet made up for lost time, rubber-stamped 15 new laws in 35 minutes. Unanimously, of course...
Chiang, a leading Asian writer-illustrator, spoke on the subject of "The Chinese Painter." Chiang compared the present state of culture to that of the 19th century, when Ralph Waldo Emerson, in his essay "The American Scholar," called for an independent culture...