Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hedley Donovan's Essay on "The Good Uses of the Watergate Affair" [May 14] is the most brilliant, illuminating and sustained dissection of the strength that is the American democratic "system" that the free world at large has ever had the good fortune to read, ponder and digest. CHARLES H. SMITH Hamilton, Bermuda...
...biting forensic style to do battle with the fashionable sophists and nihilists who monopolize so much of public discussion today. He has become one of our most influential intellectuals as co-editor of the Public Interest, prolific contributor to various periodicals, and frequent advisor in government circles. His essays, eight of which are gathered in On the Democratic Idea in America, cover a wide range of issues, from urban renewal to historiography to pornography; yet, each essay is dominated by the same recurring themes, so much so that one often suspects that the chosen topic is a mere excuse, dealt...
...year's editors did), nor did they ignore those who are anxiously watching the disintegration of Radcliffe as a separate college and wondering whether Harvard is man enough to live humanely with women. And they did make the effort to include a statement on the Black community, an honest essay on the emotional turmoil of being an actor at Harvard, and an article on the work of Education for Action...
...sketches included in the show evidence a wonderfully simple, soft and controlled line that comes closer to clearly modern style than anything in the paintings The show's excellent catalogue includes an essay by Phyllis Hattis locating the position of these drawings in the movement of early modern art. One of the finest of the drawings is actually a collage composed of several delicately drawn figures cut out, pasted onto a larger sheet of paper, and set in relation by a few background lines...
Kilson defended Herrnstein's essay on IQ, calling it a "brilliantly executed essay; whatever its technical limitations are, they're probably not as strong as some of his critics have alleged...