Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commend your Essay on "Revisionist Historians" [Feb. 2]. For these historians to say that the U.S. is the only nation in existence interested in aggression is completely to disregard the history of Western civilization. It seems to me that there were several wars of aggression among the great powers before the U.S. came into existence. How is it that we are, all of a sudden, behind every international conflict of this century, while the old hands at it have become innocent victims of our imperialistic plots? Their arguments are so shallow that I can think of only one two-syllable...
...White House at the moment, there is something like an essay contest in progress among a few aides and speechwriters attempting to give verbal shape to the President's philosophy. If nothing else, the episode illustrates a difference between Nixon and his predecessor; it short-circuits the imagination to conceive of Lyndon Johnson approving of such a staff forum on what he was thinking, or ought to think...
...from Speechwriter William Safire, 40, who wrote a 19-page tract entitled "New Federalist Paper #1, by Publius"-in imitation of the Federalist Papers, signed "Publius," by Hamilton, Madison and Jay (TIME, Jan. 26). Nowhere does New Publius attempt to equal the lucid grace of the original, but his essay is an enthusiastic effort to erect some theoretical carapace over Nixon's policies. "The purpose of the New Federalism," writes New Publius, "is to come to grips with a paradox: a need for both national unity and local diversity; a need to protect both individual equality at the national...
Intellectual Sensation. Brezhnev's angry accusations have inspired thoughtful replies from a number of prominent Soviet citizens. One of the most compelling responses was circulating last week among intellectuals in Moscow. Some thought that it came from Academician Andrei Sakharov, the gifted physicist whose 10,000-word essay outlining a scenario of economic convergence between the U.S. and the Soviet Union created a sensation among intellectuals 18 months ago. Others believed that it was written by someone who knows and shares the physicist's view, though not necessarily by Sakharov himself. Sakharov was removed from work requiring security...
...FIRST time I went to New York I wound up feeling not very good. Last May I walked it all, working on a photographic essay about people in the streets. A stocky man in a green T-shirt took a fancy to my camera while I was wearing it. He plucked it from my neck and told me with a smile he wasn't going to give it back. I watched him stride away. OK, I had insurance and it wasn't unexpected. My distracted wandering behind the lens had led me from Columbia to the outskirts of Harlem...