Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from Trinity College, Dublin. His skill with languages brought him a two-year fellowship in Paris and the promise of a teaching post at Trinity when he finished. In Paris, Beckett joined the circle of acolytes surrounding James Joyce; the young Irishman's first published work was an essay championing his senior countryman. Joyce's daughter Lucia, who was drifting into the schizophrenia that would eventually disable her, fixated on Beckett as a soul mate. She knew...
...Health, Education and Welfare, sees danger in certain proposals that have come forth lately from various tax reformers to eliminate or reduce the charitable contributions that Americans can deduct from taxable income. He stated his case recently at a United Way conference in a speech on which this essay is based...
...that signed it, the report makes little attempt at formulating a comprehensive alternative foreign policy. Commented State Department Spokesman Hodding Carter III: "The purpose of the opposition is to oppose, and such resolutions I don't find particularly surprising nor do I think they are particularly edifying" (see ESSAY). Added a high Administration official: "It is pure boiler plate ... Its partisanship is transparent and it doesn't begin to tell us what we ought to be doing instead." If such an attempt had been made, presumably the unanimity among Republicans as diverse as Clifford Case and Barry Goldwater...
...referendum debates, Powell responded that the same could be said of news organizations, whose First Amendment rights are unquestioned. Powell's comment on the power of the press was almost an aside. Filing a concurring opinion, Chief Justice Warren Burger aired the same view in an eight-page essay that at times bordered on a polemic. "Modern media empires" enjoy "vastly greater influence" than most banks or corporations, stated Burger. They "pose a much more realistic threat to valid interests...
This is John Gardner's argument in his essay On Moral Fiction. It sounds simplistic, and--of course--it is. Gardner poses as the Gabriel for a new artistic responsibility, sternly blasting forth on the trumpet, calling on the forces of "Beauty, Truth and Goodness" to regroup...