Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marshall Plan, Herodotus, New Mexico (from dinosaurs to A-bombs), "Pretty Boy" Floyd, Eastern potentates, bestsellers, babysitting, Eva Perón, the War Assets Administration and Existentialism. Strunsky's skillful use of the telling fact, the apt comparison, the impeccable word made "Topics" a model of the vanishing essay form. Without blushing, his admirers, from Franklin P. Adams to Lin Yutang, compared Strunsky to Addison & Steele and Charles Lamb...
Past & Present. It begins with an essay on Byzantine art and history, goes on to discuss the crowns of the Visigoth kings, "the most wonderful relics of the barbaric art," moves on to a thorough examination of medieval hunting, proceeds to a brilliant essay on Picasso, followed by a brief recollection of London literary and artistic life after World...
Princeton Professor Donald A. Stauffer, after taking a deep dive, comes panting to the surface with a handful of old clamshells-e.g., "A work of art may have extremely small beginnings"; "the progress of an artist in creation is always toward . . . greater significance," etc. Poet Karl (An Essay on Rime) Shapiro finds that "tigers have a dual significance" for Stephen Spender, that "poetry is but one form of expression of mystic or demonic vision...
Granted that a good deal of "bull-slinging goes on in exams involving essay question, some conclusion must inevitably be reached. The better an interpretation of the reading that conclusion is (leaving lots of room for the variety of interpretations,) the better the mark. Intelligent students (they tell me) do the same thing Mr. Cramer does, more or less, and I don't suppose the college cares half as much as everybody thinks whether the interpretation of reading matter is done by the student or Mr. Cramer...
Little more was to be gained by fur ther tutoring at this point, at least as far as the CRIMSON was concerned, so in the interests of economy I did the rest of the work for the hour exam myself. The grade tells the story; on the essay question, answered largely with the material covered in my tutoring sessions, I got an A minus; on the short-answer questions, my own contribution, a C plus...