Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nudancer. Writers delighted in rustling them up; readers found them by turns fascinating and irritating. Although these coinages still frequently appear in parodies of TIME style, they have disappeared from our columns. But every now and then the old urge still takes hold. For the latest contribution, see TIME ESSAY...
Pope was a child of his times who believed in a divine order, which he frequently described as nature. In An Essay On Man he wrote: "All nature is but art, unknown to thee;/ All chance, direction, which thou canst not see." It was upon a generally held conception of divine and human order that Pope built his strict prosody...
...Weber, in his fundamental essay, "Politics as a Vocation," emphasizes over and over the fact that politics "operates with very special means, namely power backed up by violence," and so one requires a special and sensitive ethic of political conduct. Weber goes on to suggest two such: the ethic of ultimate ends, under which one takes actions on the basis of one's pure and good intentions regardless of the immediate consequences--even though these may be the opposite of what is desired. This kind of thinking is identified by Weber as being common among those possessed with religions zeal...
Reasoner's style has kept him rising through CBS echelons until he now delivers the Sunday night television news and a daily radio essay as well as continuing his wry documentaries on the English language, chairs, women and other necessities. He also narrates special programs and often substitutes, as he did again last week, for Cronkite on the network's flagship early-evening newscast. This season, Reasoner has been a mainstay on 60 Minutes, a Tuesday-night television newsmagazine that ap pears every other week and on which he alternates quarter-hour features with Mike Wallace. This week...
...spite of his efforts, the Indonesians beam and smile, mistaking it for a prehistory museum. He also works as an interpreter at an international conference. When the Cuban spokesman takes the floor, Arlecq switches off the sound and improvises: "The general theme was as simple as a school essay: Cuba and North American imperialism . . . When Arlecq switched on the sound again they were both, the speaker and he, still uttering the same things, their lines of thought converging in the struggle for world peace. The delegates responded with a standing ovation...