Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...application with photographs of his sculpture. It also agreed to accept Vladimir Gulevich, 20, of Paterson, N.J., who graduated from his local high school two years ago with below-average grades, went on to a Manhattan business school. Gulevich caught the notice of admissions officials by writing the required essay about himself in the form of an extended poem, then by showing interviewers a sheaf of first-rate translations of Russian verse...
...average grades who spent last summer driving a Jeep across the U.S. and sleeping in jails. "That takes maturity," comments Douglas Thompson, the school's assistant dean of admissions. "Swarthmore looks well beyond mere grades for qualities of uniqueness, which usually come across in interviews or in the essay that Swarthmore's application requires. We want a boy with something that tells us: 'Hello, I'm different...
...metaphor for this quest in the legend of Iseult-the unattainable woman who vanishes at the instant she is possessed. "What is it that shines from Iseult's face but our own past, with its strange innocence and its strange need to be redeemed?" he wrote in an essay in 1963 What is nostalgia but love for that part of ourselves which is in Heaven forever removed from change and corruption? A woman, loved, momentarily eases the pain of time by localizing nostalgia: the vague and irrecoverable objects of nostalgic longing are assimilated, under the pressure of libidinous desire...
...major source of the company's cool, exact style is the choreography of its Dutch cofounder, Hans van Manen, whose Essay in Silence shows the theater's corps at its reserved but authoritative best. The theme of the dance is man's lack of communication with man. Without a note from the orchestra, the dancers swoop, leap, writhe and double up in inarticulate agony. But the dance is full of sound-the staccato rhythms of the dancers' feet, their sudden grunts and cries of desperation and, as the pace increases, the amplified...
...checking up on the mechanical aspects of the educational process they are ideal. However exams cannot and should not attempt to produce creativity. The superficiality of most exam answers and the difficulty of honest grading are legendary among teaching fellows. Besides, anyone who feels that a one-hour essay written under conditions of stress can accurately plumb the depth of his or her intelligence and understanding must be in a pretty bad state...