Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...installment plan) for textbooks and the comments of an instructor on each written assignment that he submits. Each student is asked to write 24 manuscripts of up to 3,000 words each over a three-year period. Sample assignment: a 2,000-word essay on "the art of living...
...killed during the years of turmoil since the regime triumphed in 1949? Columbia University China Expert Donald Klein places the total as low as 2,000,000; others say 6,000,000 or 8,000,000. Of course, those figures are all classic examples of the unverifiable statistic (TIME ESSAY, Aug. 2), but then so are most of Dr. Walker...
...Including Social Theorist Count de Gobineau (Essay on the Inequality of Human Races, 1855) and Eugenicist Francis Gallon (Hereditary Genius...
...Ruth Brine is an Uncle Tom of the female s"x [Essay, July 26]. It is easy to find fault with any movement. In criticizing a handful of already "liberated" authors for too much "consciousness raising," she missed the whole point: until men and women in all strata of American society, not just the elite leadership, learn that human potential extends beyond sexual roles, then precious little will be accomplished...
...absurd to say, as TIME does in the Essay "Who Needs Masterpieces at Those Prices?" [July 19], that "in America today, nobody needs another Titian -not at those prices." America does need masterpieces, and the high cost is created not by the "rapacity" of museums but by the extreme rarity of these masterpieces (the Velázquez and the Titian are probably the last great masterpieces ever to go on sale) and by inflation...