Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WITH this issue, TIME takes a step that breaks a long-standing tradition. At the same time, it is only the logical outcome of a gradual and I think inevitable evolution. Henceforth, our cultural criticism, the TIME Essay, and occasionally certain other stories will be signed by their authors...
Like the earlier Snowdon effort, Love of a Kind is an evocative film essay on human loneliness and eccentricity. There are amusing flashes, as when a bosomy matron hatches a chick in her cleavage, but the general mood is straightforwardly clinical. Fetishism is obviously poignant and, at times, repugnant to Snowdon. Just as his work on aging contained some hospital footage as brutal as any in MASH, he is again deliberately trying to stir his audience. In one vignette, a curmudgeonly lady remarks that upon her death, she wants her 35 dogs "quietly put to sleep." Unfortunately...
Walzer first published several of the essays in Dissent. a magazine which he helped found and edit. The other pieces come from lectures in Government 104 at Harvard during the years 1966-69. His discussion of "Civil Disobedience and Corporate Authority" reflects the impact of the school's strike in April 1969-during which he became a leader of the Harvard Faculty's "liberal caucus." Another essay, on oppressed minorities, refers unmistakably to the rise of black nationalism and the ?hical muddle which it presents...
...intellectuals shared Solzhenitsyn's outrage. The day after Medvedev's incarceration four well-known Russian scientists-Andrei Sakharov, Pyotr Kapitsa, Vladmir En-gelgardt and Boris Astaurov-sent protest telegrams to the mental institution. In front of a classroom of students, Sakharov, the author of a brilliant essay on the inevitability of the convergence of American and Russian systems, who lectures at the Lebedev Institute of Physics in Moscow, chalked on the blackboard a plea for signatures on a protest petition. Other intellectuals, including Alexander Tvardovsky, the ousted editor of Novy Mir, Roy Medvedev, Zhores' twin brother...
...than that the mushroom ever did. Last week 15 distinguished theologians and philologists -including Sir Godfrey Driver, one of the chief translators of the Old Testament in the New English Bible -took to the letters columns of the Times of London to denounce Allegro's book as "an essay in fantasy rather than philology," which is "not based on any philological or other evidence" of merit...