Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your Essay that the protest generation has yet to produce good literature [May 18]. Our geniuses today chant their poetry behind electric guitars and blaring amplifiers. They have deliberately, if not consciously, chosen media that the Establishment does not hear or understand. That way their messages come through unwarped and uncensored. The 19th century Russian poets and novelists did the same thing in order to bypass a deaf and irrelevant Establishment...
...marvel that you could write a full-page Essay about protesters, who despair of making themselves heard, without mentioning the most obvious point: we did hear their bleats. We heard, man. we heard that Bobby Seale is just a spirited kid being imposed upon, that the Chicago Seven were just fun-loving kids out for a lark, that Gene McCarthy's policy of precipitate flight from Viet Nam is best, that the Nixon Administration is a fascist dictatorship, that students own the universities and are entitled to burn them down at will, that Che Guevara was a public benefactor...
TIME'S Essay on the quality of White House intelligence [May 25] jogged one reader's memory back to 1945, when a U.S. Navy assignment required him to ascertain the location of various warships at specific times. "I questioned admirals and captains, who sent me to other admirals and captains," he wrote. "Finally, in the office of an elderly admiral wearing ribbons I had never seen before, I was certain I had reached the end of my quest. I put my questions. He thought for a moment, then said, 'Lieutenant, when I want information of that kind...
Lost Elan. John W. Gardner's essay is the bridge book to the past. It comes closest to the old American liberal attitude of decent expectation. Yet the title clearly implies that a vital national elan has been lost−and must be found again before the American dream may be further pursued. In fact, the slightly retreating titles of Mr. Gardner's previous books reflect the pressure of the times. From the absolute of Excellence (1961) he has strategically withdrawn to Self-Renewal (1964), No Easy Victories (1968), and now The Recovery of Confidence...
...example of a radical who was not discriminated against, Peterson cited one underground newspaper editor who used one of his articles from the paper as his application essay. Sprinkled with four-letter words, it was, according to Peterson, radical in outlook. The alumni interviewer said the candidate was aggressive in his manner...