Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Singer, the author of Satan in Goray and The Slave, delivered an essay in which he emphasized that Yiddish writers must be rooted in the Yiddish culture in order to be successful. "It is no accident," he said, "that the great Jewish writers come from places where Yiddish is read...
Besides the essay, Singer read an amusing short story about a successful Yiddish writer in America. The writer only knew a handful of English words, but he was able to bribe enough critics to become rich...
...reason we rate semantic aphasia so low-somewhere between athlete's foot and the common cold on the scale of national perils-is that we don't understand the deeper implications of the disease. In his classic essay, Politics and the English Language, George Orwell pointed out what should be obvious -that sloppy language makes for sloppy thought. Emerson went so far as to suggest that bad rhetoric meant bad men. Semantic aphasia, both men recognized, kills after all. "And the Lord said: 'Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they...
...Your Essay really turned me off on motorcycles. The truth is that motorcycles are horrendously loud and that most of the big-bike owners I know think this is a symbol of their masculinity...
...feet of his readers. Randy begins to confuse painters' helpers with Santa helpers, the NLF with NEE, and even his CRIMSON pieces soon reflect his bewilderment at world events. In short, Randy is shaken out of his Eastern mold and recast as an alienated intellectual, writing on one essay into personal journalism during his junior year, "I am lost. And words are useless. The pieces no longer fit together...