Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marcel Duchamp has hardly painted a picture since. Carrying French cynicism to almost pathological lengths, he entered a shovel in an art exhibition at the Bourgeois Gallery in 1917 with an elaborate essay on its artistic worth, later bought a bird cage, filled it with lumps of marble, called it Why Not Sneeze? and sold it to Painter Katherine Dreier's sister. Enormously skilful with his fingers, he invented a number of mechanical and optical gadgets. From only one did he make any money. It was a series of colored disks to be spun on the turntable...
...source of the quotation, she wrote, quite naïvely, "I did not intend to imply that Voltaire used these words verbatim and should be surprised if they are found in any of his works. They are rather a paraphrase of Voltaire s words in the essay on Tolerance: 'Think for yourselves, and let others enjoy the privilege...
...mosaic for which the art of an entire period has contributed the material. That it is written in as graceful prose as any U. S. writer can claim is a tribute to Mr. Brooks's taste. That he can quote the source, in some novel, diary, letter or essay, "for every phrase" in its 537 pages, is testimony of his creative scholarship...
Dogman Terhune had published in the August issue of Reader's Digest a brief essay entitled "Beware of the Dog" which consisted mainly of advice on how to avoid being bitten. A dog which comes up with high head and loud barks, observed Mr. Terhune, does not intend to bite. If the animal approaches with head down and low growls, it probably means to bite but will frequently be too puzzled to do so if the person stands with feet together and hands on chest. That dogs are inclined to attack people who are afraid of them Author Terhune...
...name was taken for what the world considers one of the blackest and most abnormal outrages." Probably Herod died at Jericho, four years before the birth of Christ, at the age of 70, after a reign of 35 years. Last week Dr. Minkin offered readers an old-fashioned biographical essay, filled with common-sense analyses and romantic speculations, that was calculated to reduce Herod's crimes to historical perspective, render him less a monster, more the victim of a monstrous set of circumstances. Although the portrait that emerges seems plausible, readers are likely to feel that the value...