Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yiddish writer read an essay and his latest short story--a spare and gentle account of an American Jew's visit to his Polish parents--answered questions, and expounded an aesthetic theory in which "the essence of fiction is the study of character and individuality...
...Attempting to change a society through a mere change of words as discussed in your Essay on "Sispeak" [Oct. 23] affects that society about to the extent that pasting a gin label on a bottle of milk makes the contents eligible for martini construction. Words are not things; words are only words...
...show one realizes the irony of his situation in the 1950s: that an artist criticized as an appendage to Europe should have made such advances amidst the general flabbiness that the School of Paris was suffering at the time. Sam Francis, as Robert Buck Jr. notes in his catalogue essay, "was almost alone [in Paris] as a contemporary artist furthering one of the strongest traditions in French art-a joyous and unrestrained love of color...
...Joan Didion wrote once in a shrewd essay, "the corruption and venality and restrictiveness of Hollywood have become...firm tenets of American social faith-and of Hollywood's own image of itself." Perry is a film maker who generally works far from Hollywood, but temperamentally and intellectually he is at the very center of the system Didion so deftly described...
...TIME Essay [Oct. 16] "Is Nobody Indignant Any More?": I certainly want to voice my moral indignation about a man occupying and running for the highest office in the land when he is accountable for a Watergate scandal, ITT, etc. As to the reason other Americans have not raised their voices, I can only assume that Americans badly need something to cheer about rather than condemn; some reason to feel good about their country rather than to feel shame. Nixon has given us an overdose of sham and shame. My vote is for George McGovern, who offers us a change...