Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...standardized picture" it gives of both America and Europe. He would have written a review more in accordance with TIME'S professed intention to report accurately if he had even mentioned that my book is not primarily what he calls an "excursion" into world politics, but rather an essay on "the necessity for Americans and Europeans to reach beyond the barriers of their political differences to human and cultural understanding...
...intellectual race, Tony Arnold thought, Radley would win in a walk. Said he: "At Radley, I used to tell my master that I planned to do an essay on some subject. It wasn't the deadline that mattered, it was the quality. At Kent, we were told to have an essay ready on an assigned subject by Monday morning. Everybody just dashed off something with the least possible effort. Students at Kent are just shoehorned along to graduating." The boys talked about sex "for hours & hours," but were innocent of political ideas...
...Yale weekend will be free for the student who can write the best essay answer to the Young Republican Club's dilemma: "Why Dewey Should Be Elected...
...novelist of distinction. James wrote in England, in all the panoply of his handsome prose, and with a good deal of Old World "side"; but he did not have much to add to the story of Hawthorne's life. He knew it, and called his book a "critical essay...
With his marriage in 1842 Hawthorne became ready for his greatest work, The Scarlet Letter, and four years later, after poverty and happiness in Concord and in Salem, he wrote it, grew sick over it, and let it be published in a hurry with the long introductory essay on the Salem Custom House-an essay, then, of political significance and courage-acting as a kind-of "lightning rod" to keep the full shock of his masterpiece from the public. Imagination and the life of Salem had interpenetrated. Wrote Oliver Wendell Holmes: "He has done it, and it will never...