Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Essay. "Can the World Survive Economic Growth?" [Aug. 14], George Church envisions for the U.S. a policy that accepts an increase in material wellbeing, rather than rising G.N.P., as an economic goal. I'm for it. But there would indeed be an onerous price to pay, even for survival, if "the Government would have to take over more direction of the economy...
Ernest Jones, official biographer of Sigmund Freud, seemed to agree with those sentiments when he wrote in 1930: "Chess...is a play substitute for the art of war." But in the same essay, The Problem of Paul Morphy, which discussed the paranoia that beset the American chess prodigy of the 1850s, he also moved Freud's much-debated interpretation of Oedipus onto the chessboard. Morphy, in Jones' somewhat questionable theory, had to sublimate a strong Oedipal urge to "kill the father." His own flesh-and-blood father was already dead, but Morphy had a surrogate father, Howard Staunton...
Since Jones' essay, the psychoanalysis of chess has been increasingly preoccupied with sexual symbolism. Said Menninger about chess players: "Silently they are plotting (and attempting to execute) murderous campaigns of patricide, matricide, fratricide, regicide and mayhem." A great chess player, Manhattan's Reuben Fine, has popularized a psychology of chess studded with phallic symbols, spattered with anal-sadistic impulses and imbued with latent homosexuality. In successive rounds, Fine once defeated Botvinnik, Reshevsky, Euwe, Flohr and Alekhine, and drew with Capablanca. When Fine switched his major interest from chess to psychoanalysis, the result was a loss for chess...
...Robert Hughes' Essay on the Rolling Stones [luly 17] was an incredible piece of pseudointellectual, nonsensical verbiage. I stood in line for 17 hours and fought brutal crowds for three more not to see a "butterfly for sexual lepidopterists," but simply to hear what has consistently been for the past eight years the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world...
...George McGovern and the Democrats had not taken more time; they had probably taken less time than any major party in history to choose their vice-presidential candidate. The great Democratic reforms had somehow not got round to improving the haphazard system of choosing a Vice President (see TIME ESSAY...