Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unyoung people can gratefully welcome the very fine historical perspective m Melvin Maddocks' Essay "Rituals-The Revolt Against the Fixed Smile" [Oct. 12]; it very nicely places us in the highly uncomfortable position of the "In-between Generation...
...state contests that have evoked ennui. Hence the President will have covered at least 22 states in the campaign's final 21 days. Last week he sent Pat to Michigan, Minnesota, Florida and Nevada; Spiro Agnew continued to sweep across the country juggernaut-style, scourging radic-libs (see ESSAY...
...this week of his death, there has appeared American Violence: A Documentary History , distinguished by its thoughtful, far-ranging, and eloquent introductory essay. Hofstadter continued to have much to say to the new generation...
...seems to have been overtaken by senility. In Good King Charles' Golden Days is certainly the most interesting play about the Exclusion Crisis and the social problems of the Stuart Restoration I have seen. Its major problem is that it is not so much a play as an essay in social history. It takes the form of a conversation in Isaac Newton's living room, with Newton, the Quaker George Fox, the artist Godfrey Kneller, James II, Charles I and three of his mistresses taking part. They talk about the state of the Anglican Church, the function of the monarchy...
...ESSAY which accompanies the record, Dr. W. H. C. Tenhaeff, Professor of Psychology at the State University of Utrecht, talks of cryptomnesia, the phenomenon by which people produce what seems to be supernaturally inspired work, when in fact they are only calling back to mind forgotten experiences. The example he gives is of a woman who was able to write Arabic quotations, although she was totally innocent of the language. It was later discovered that she had, as a child seen the phrases which she wrote, in her physician's office, and had merely brought them back to mind. This...