Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WRITING about the new doubts concerning the traditional American work ethic, Donald Morrison found last week, can be hard work. "For one thing," he says, "the elements in this essay are so compelling and interwoven that you can summarize them no more easily than a Nabokov novel. And journalists are so accustomed to burning the midnight bulb that you have to remind yourself repeatedly that things can be different in other lines of work...
...giving what his advisers called a $1,000 "demogrant" to everybody-even though the proposal was meant to replace some existing welfare programs- McGovern excited the social reformers, who are a minority in America, while deeply offending multitudes who thought it contradictory to the work ethic (see THE ESSAY, page 96). As economist Arthur Okun, a McGovern adviser , puts it. "The things that helped him win the division pennant have hurt him in in the World Series." When McGovern belatedly buried the demogrant idea in August, he alienated many more people, who decided that in the realm of economics...
...this sense, the accomplishment of the study may be more important than the study itself. Its arguments are significant, and its concluding essay on strategies in approaching the political system is extremely well conceived. However, its most hopeful aspect is the non-hierarchical effort it embodies of people using the tools at their disposal for the sake of themselves and of other people. If their example is emulated by women thinking of starting or joining pressure groups, research committees, day care co-ops, or discussion groups, it will have done more to educate the feminist movement than if every woman...
Charles S Bridge Memorial Essay...
...enable the reader to understand the songs, Jackson first presents excerpts from interviews he conducted with the prisoners. He then gives a short interpretive history of the prison system and how the songs developed in reaction to it. He follows with his photographic essay on the camps--pictures of chain gangs marching on dusty roads driven by fat sheriffs and photographs of strong black inmates picking cotton. He concludes with the songs, certainly the most instructive part of the book...