Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feel compelled to disagree that thinking has become a bad habit [Essay, "The New Cult of Madness," March...
Much of this friendly distance can be attributed to her European upbringing and background. Last year her graduate seminar read Weber's Science as a Vocation, an essay concerned with the obligation of the professor to be a value-free social scientist. Her students by and large agree that Shklar, too, seems to believe in this posture. She is committed to the non-committal stance on the part of the teacher towards students when political and personal views are discussed. Strongly opposed to subjectivism and irrationalism, she has never tried to impinge on the opinions of her students...
...began to be systematically written, its heroes have all been men. From Praxiteles through Michelangelo to Cézanne and Matisse, the sex of Western genius never varies. Where were the great women artists? Silence. "The fact of the matter is," argued Art Historian Linda Nochlin in a brilliant essay for Art News, "that there have been no supremely great women artists, although there have been many interesting and good ones; nor have there been any great Lithuanian jazz pianists, nor Eskimo tennis players, no matter how much we might wish there had been...
...going out of fashion, but the mark of Adam is still quite visible. Anthony Burgess, a first-rate commentator on fiction, still "gains no pleasure from serious reading that lacks a strong male thrust and a brutal intellectual content." Louis Auchincloss once paused in the course of a critical essay on Jean Stafford to express awe that she was resourceful enough to hail...
Years ago, when Edmund Wilson wrote an acerbic essay on mystery novels, his title - and his theme - was "Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?" The same skepticism might be directed toward a subspecies of the mystery genre known as the caper story, wherein a skilled handful of professionals try to steal a certain invaluable object from a certain impregnable fortress. The trouble with such yarns is that they tend to be about mechanics, not people. Unable to believe in the characters, who could care that the fuse won't light or the tumblers won't fall...