Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Women's Lib Has No Soul." So proclaims the cover of the latest issue of Encore, the black newsmagazine. Inside, an essay by Psychologist Rose Finkenstaedt condemns the feminist movement as "little more than the hysterical exhibitionism of spoiled children." To blacks, adds Editor-Publisher Ida Lewis, Women's Lib is merely "a playtoy for middle-class white women." At first reading, Encore's broadside sounds too extreme to reflect the outlook of more than a few blacks. But in interviews with TIME correspondents across the nation last week, many black women agreed with the magazine...
...correctly state in your Essay "Time to Plant a New Farm Policy" [Feb. 26], that increased meat prices are a result of increased consumer demand at a low point in the meat-supply cycle. But are farm prices too high? I believe not. The consumer will have to pay a fair price in the market or subsidize the farmer directly with a grant, as you suggest. In fact, Americans spend a lower percentage of their disposable income for food than any other industrialized nation in the world...
...EVIDENCE that Kramer's political analysis is sounder than the confusing self-revelatory passages of Mother Walter, you can turn to "The Quality of Naivete," an introductory essay he wrote for The Growth of Industrial Art. This massive volume is a re-issue of Benjamin Butterworth's 1892 collection of drawings of early tools right up to the then-latest advances in American technology. The self-satisfied texture of this beautiful book speaks more eloquently than any written passage could for the peculiar sensibilities of the late nineteenth century businessman...
...Kramer's essay is a radical rehash of populism and the origins of unionized labor. He writes like a good journalist, with a knack for vivid description of those events which did most to shape the consciousness of "the people." He is not making a subtle argument, not digging for causes. He is instead trying to convey an alien character of mind, to make us appreciate that the misery and insecurity of the poor could co-exist with calculating businessmen who sympathized very little...
After reading this essay, it's even easier to appreciate Mother Walter as a revealing book which also contains more than enough enjoyable essays and pictures to justify occasional rereading and passing the book on to friends. I think Mark Kramer tried to tie too much together too soon, but considering that the essays were written over a three-year period, the consistent quality of most of the book is impressive. Maybe next time, he won't feel compelled to apologize...