Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DEAR JOHN. The subjects of this perceptive essay on sex in Sweden are a sailor and a girl who spend a weekend learning that there is more to their relationship than lust at first sight...
...Modern Theater" Essay [July 8] says: "What these modern playwrights aim for is not to convey actions, messages or answers but states of being and feeling." Does every play have to contain a message? Should the playwright just supply answers? Three cheers for the playwright who can create states of being, arouse feeling, and make one think. As for the fact that "some playgoers cannot comprehend these modern plays," is the failure that of the playwright, or is it that of the playgoer who enters the theater expecting only to be entertained...
...TIME'S Essay "On Understanding Asia" [July 1]. The Asia that "had produced strikingly little written history" must not include China, which has the longest continuous historiographical tradition in the world, and probably the most voluminous. Scientists rely on precise Chinese records of supernovae, sunspots, etc., for the nearly two millennia that Europeans did not believe in such phenomena and thus did not see them. That the Chinese have no word for "no" is a statement about syntax, not diction-there are common words for "not," "don't," "never," etc.-and even so, TIME'S statement...
...service" in communicating to the public "the basic values of our legal and judicial systems." TIME was cited for its regular coverage of these systems in the Law section - which is written by Robert Shnayerson and edited by Richard Seamon - plus a specific citation for the July 16, 1965 Essay, "The Revolution in Criminal Justice...
...Church, he loses his head. This much is familiar. But, we ask, why? Why does Sir Thomas follow the path of martyrdom that four hundred years later was to make him Saint Thomas? This is the question that Bolt explores in his splendid play and to which I muse essay an answer...