Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Welcome back to school kids. For your first homework assignment, I want you to write an essay on what you did over your summer vacation...
Remember back to your elementary school days when the teacher, invariably assigned a paper on this topic on the first day every year. Well, I miss those days. For me, starting school without writing an essay about my summer exploits is like spring arriving unaccompanied by baseball players holding out for more money...
...Frank Trippett's Essay "Of Risks, Hazards and Culprits" [Aug. 28] decrying what you call "the increased tendency of injured parties to sue somebody," you attempt to equate American law holding negligent and careless individuals liable for their conduct with "the modern welfare state." That is unforgivable. In fact, the tort system allocates losses to those who actually cause them, rather than asking society in general...
Frankly, I really enjoyed Trippett-ing through the TIME Essay, "The Game of the Name" [Aug. 14]. After all, what's in a name...
This intimacy means a ravenous consumption, rather than contemplation, of images. Szarkowski, an aesthete to the fingertips, will have none of it. His catalogue essay describes the decay of the relationship between serious photography and the dying picture magazines in the '60s, along with what he terms the growing realization among photographers that the camera's testimony about news was "opaque and superficial." He roundly states that "good photographers had long since known?whether or not they admitted it to their editors?that most issues of importance cannot be photographed." So one of the messages of the show is clear...