Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thank you for the excellent Essay. The way words are used does shape the way we think and feel. Now could we work on the usage of the word race...
...TIME'S Essay "Down with Media" is a cute example of the deviousness of rationalization in defense of confusing but doubtless profitable communications overkill! There is (are?) a liberal communications medium (media?) with the sticky, cohesive, emotion-affecting, mind-warping pervasiveness of a Los Angeles temperature inversion...
...Your semantically perceptive Essay [June 7] suggests that one media and one data, as well as one criteria, two pair and two aspirin, serve the useful purpose of establishing their users' ignorance quotients. TJ. DYLEWSKI Saratoga, Calif...
...TIME'S Essay is, once one has circumnavigated the semantics, a somewhat querulous defense against attacks upon your medium by the rudely righteous right (known to themselves as the practically perfect patriots). Don't panic, TIME. Your magazine will still be on the newsstands when people again say: "Spiro T. who?" In the meantime, you should adopt the attitude of the Geological Journal, which doesn't become the least bit upset when someone says it is a Commie rag because it maintains that the world is round...
...prime objective of Op-Ed since its inception, and the page now draws nearly as many letters to the Times as the paper's editorials. Although some of the political contributions have been a bit pedantic, other offerings have produced delight, drama and deliberate outrage. The most inflammatory essay to date was an open letter to his college-bound son by a Southern physician, Dr. Paul Williamson. Stick to studying and necking and avoid revolution, wrote the father, or "expect to get shot. Mother and I will grieve, but we will gladly buy a dinner for the National Guardsman...