Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expertise of photographers to specific assignments. For instance, he has chosen a dozen experienced political photographers to accompany him to the Democratic Convention this week. Among them are Ken Regan, who, in addition to photographing every major candidate this year, provided the color photography for this week's Essay on the Rolling Stones and this week's cover photo; Pulitzer Prizewinner Eddie Adams; Yoichi Okamoto, President Johnson's White House photographer and Walter Bennett of our Washington Bureau, who has been capturing the capital on film for two decades...
...Your Essay "Can Italy Be Saved from Itself?" [June 5] proves what my professor of medieval history has maintained all along: in 1500 Western Europe should have been roped off as a historic preservation area. Modern life could have grown up in the "suburbs," and we would be spared the spectacle of cars being elevated like the Host before the altars of Romanesque churches...
...must commend Robert Hughes' Essay. I too have observed the slow cultural suicide of Italy. The destruction of Italian art is a disaster because it is one of the few human creations with universal appeal. Unlike the beer can-disposable, faddish art of today, a Bernini or Leonardo has a unique, timeless quality...
This is not to say that everything here is completely unenlightening on the retrospective's subject. Two critical articles on John Wesley Harding and a final essay written especially for the anthology by Wilfrid Mellers shed some light on Dylan's musical roots, the religiosity of his music, and his development as a writer...
...Your Essay entitled "Why Be Afraid of Americans?" [May 15] is a shocking display of your morbid prejudice against Richard Nixon. I believe that if the President succeeded in calling down the Angel Gabriel and effected a settlement satisfactory to all parties, you would still carp...