Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...research project in self-expression. Or perhaps soup as a study of differing structural systems; soup, thought and reality; soup and time-sense on the Fiji Islands; levels of expression through hot and cold soup. Uses of soup in American literature. How many cooks spoil the broth?-a narrative essay. The possibilities are endless, and therein lies the essence of Harvard...
...According to this view, it was not by chance that Oedipus' unwitting incest occurred after he solved the riddle of the Sphinx. Among the Algonquin and Iroquois tribes, there is a legend of brother-and-sister love in which riddles are posed by talking owls. In a 1967 essay, Burgess marvels at this transcultural yoking. In MF, the old Algonquin yarn is the mother of one of his richest comic inventions...
After roasting the proudly remote metaphysics of Emerson's essay Self-Reliance, after deploring the enchanted navel gazing of Whitman's Song of Myself, Professor Anderson confronts James' The Golden Bowl. The Jacobin crime, as he draws it up, was to take European culture, abstract it, then reconstruct the abstraction as a kind of kingdom in the novelist's mind, with Mad Henry as its tyrant...
...essay represents the first effort by a Vietnamese historian to publish an account of the Communist regime's politics and their effects, without being committed to either the Communist Party line or the anti-Communist viewpoint of the Saigon regime...
...recounts the basic decisions made by the Hanoi leadership regarding land reforms, the collectivization of agriculture, and the effort to build an industrial sector in part through the sacrifice of peasant consumption and income. Although the tone of the essay is dry and dispassionate, it does not hide the author's respect for the accomplishments of North Vietnam...