Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Homo sapiens such a murderous species? Mayhem among gangsters crests periodically, like seasonal floods, to settle grudges or to clarify title to racket real estate. Less organized killing is random and constant-and more difficult to pin down. Our cover story and Essay this week discuss both kinds; analyzing the skein of gang murders in New York and the deep-seated psychology of violence that has no home town...
...Essay, written by Virginia Adams, deals with the broader aspects of violent behavior. To examine this peculiar-and seemingly growing-pathology, she drew on the views of psychiatrists, psychologists and other experts. "Our aim," says Senior Editor Leon Jaroff, "is to place the gang killings in their proper perspective, as a dramatic but small part of a much larger phenomenon...
...Novelist had elsewhere written an essay on his techniques of making films, explained in terms of his latest and longest work, Maidstone. With the intention of recording events truly appropriate to the nature of the medium rather than to the conventions of pre-film literature (the essay tells us,) Mr. Mailer invited a large group of friends, actors, actor-friends, and non-actor non-friends for a week-long party in Easthampton. There, with the use of four estates and the help of three cambers crews, the sol-disant Prisoner of Movies made a film in which "the country...
...essay describing all this is laden with references to the then recent assasination of Bobby Kennedy, the strangely ominous atmosphere of the Easthampton party, and suspicions of a spontaneous assassination attempt on Mr. Mailer himself. The denouement of the film came, we are informed, when on the last day of the week Mr. Rip Torn attacked Mr. Kingsley Mailer with a seriously weilded hammer, hit him on the head with the flat of it, and in return had his ear bitten bloody. We wonder whether Mr. Mailer might really have been more pleased with the way the film emerged...
Kenneth Koch's book deals with the problem of allowing younger children to use their powers of expression creatively. His incisive essay, based on his experiences teaching first-through-sixth graders in a New York public school, is a concise resource for teacher looking for ideas and guiding principles. He discusses the effectiveness of different ideas for poems, what physical and emotional settings are most conductive for children to write poetry, and the differences in presenting opportunities to write to children on different grade levels...