Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Frankfurt businessman described in the 'Technology Gap" Essay is obviously a member of the lower classes -a mere prole, in fact...
...NEWS (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). Harry Reasoner and Andrew Rooney join forces for another essay: "The American Woman." What is she really like and what does she think of herself...
Besides, Gardner has a commitment to the ideal of the Great Society that antedates even Lyndon Johnson's. In 1961, three years before the President's now-famous speech at Ann Arbor, Mich., Gardner wrote in a provocative essay called Excellence that Americans "long, long ago were committed, as free men, to the arduous task of building a great society-not just a strong one, not just a rich one, but a great society...
...much an exhibit as a happening") which recreates the city's Lower East Side from 1870 to 1924. The article begins with a series of cliches which create a suspicion that it is simply one more addition to the collection of general, and generally boring, essays on the search for "cultural identity." "We have no common ethnic, territorial or cultural past, as other nations have." Or, we are told, "Men need to recover their roots; not to sink into, but to grow out of." But Berman does not long remain at the level of banal declarations. He moves quickly through...
...essay I find so exciting is Prof. C.L. Barber's "Perfection of the Work," an Erikson-style psycho-analysis of Shakespeare. Barber takes the Sonnets as his data, Lorenz as his theoretician, and Keats as his stimulus, rather echoing Keats's famous "Negative Capability" letter when he wonders "how it was possible for Shakespeare to endure his openness to life, his selfless sense of other identities." Barber is wildly speculative, but modestly, openly so, and produces some stimulating starting points for inquiries into the relationship of artist and society...