Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your Essay "Right You Are if You Say You Are-Obscurely" [Dec. 30] was merely an acute masochistic reaction formation to your own hostile-aggressive syntax, which itself derives from an inadequate ego-syntonic defense system with paranoiac overtones...
...heavy reader response were our selection of America's best teachers; the story and psychological analysis of the Texas mass murderer, Charles Whitman; the cover story on Danny Escobedo and the drastic changes taking place in U.S. criminal law; and the ode to middle age, starring Lauren Bacall. Essay moved into its second year with its usual catholicity of concern, ranging from today's philosophers to suicide. This week the section salutes a new year by attempting a new device: an essay in play form, written by Stefan Kanfer...
...TIME'S Essay, "The New Melting Pot" [Dec. 2], has contributed greatly to a much needed and long overdue restatement of the structure and function of the U.S. Our democratic republic has always been the pioneer of the brotherhood of nationalities, the hope of the democratic governments and the champion of the U.N., so that this institution of all nations shall emerge as an effective instrument of peace and justice for all. As long as this American function continues, it will substantially encourage the pursuit of world improvement...
Theater Critic Theodore Kalem takes his puns more seriously, recalling that James Joyce was an accomplished punster. Kalem used a pun from Finnegans Wake in an Essay on the theater: "As long as playgoers are yung and easily freudened...
...While the points made by your Essay "On Suicide" [Nov. 25] were understandable and at times even brilliant, you have riot come up with one statement in defense of life under any conditions as Hemingway did against it: "Life on my terms or I don't want it." It is ridiculous to claim, as does Dr. Yolles, that no physical torture is sufficient reason to prefer death. The cancer patient who wants euthanasia is committing no crime against the miracle of life. There are times when proper homage is paid to life by renouncing it rather than by clinging...