Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sensitive Essay on Charles Lindbergh [May 26]. God love and bless the man for his many contributions to mankind and for the agony he so nobly endured. Bad cess to his detractors...
...time he left St. Marks for Harvard in 1935, Lowell had written in an essay on the Iliad: "Its magnitude and depth make it almost as hard to understand as life." So soon, Lowell had put art and life on a parity. At Harvard, he lolled in his room, surrounded by prints of Leonardo and Rembrandt, listening to Beethoven on his phonograph. He wrote poems full of violence and foreboding, black roses, a "plague" that "breathed the decay of centuries." No one then at Harvard was interested, so Lowell took his verses to Robert Frost, who was living near...
Left & Right, Right & Wrong Sir: Thanks for another concisely worded Essay-"The Right to Dissent & the Duty to Answer" [May 12]. By placing in historical perspective the issue of dissent on Viet Nam policy, the Essay generates light for both dissenters and defenders. For the left it inspires determination while calling for not quite so much arrogance. For the right it cautions against tendencies to suppress our most time-tempered means of guarding against national delusions of omnipotence, yet with the incisive reminder that even L.B.J.'s Establishment represents a policy come of age compared to former treatments...
...early poems by Sylvia Plath; they indicate she was not always a good poet. While the early poems anticipate her later bleak preoccupation with madness and death, they fall far short of the technical virtuosity and the intensity of her later work. More intriguing than the poems are the essays which accompany them. Elizabeth Aldrich's analysis of "The Eye-Mote" (which appeared in Miss Plath's first volume, The Collossus) takes the poem apart and puts it back together in the finest style of New Criticism and, incidentally, gives a reasonably good perspective on Sylvia Plath's over...
...networks next season will produce 300 such programs, including two Truman Capote adaptations on ABC, and at least four newly commissioned works on CBS Playhouse. About half of the specials will be documentaries-among them an NBC study on the state of U.S. justice, a four-hour ABC essay on Africa...