Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weeks after your Essay on the population bomb appeared [Oct. 24], the world's population had grown by something over 2.5 million people. Does anyone feel that in that brief period the world generated enough assets to feed, clothe and educate them...
...issue of how the cultural symbols associated with different ethnic groups relate to their socioeconomic position and interest, such studies put up a smokescreen that prevents their readers from realizing how the "ethnicity" appeal works as an obstacle to radical, egalitarian social change. Patterson's objective in this essay is to cut to the heart of that dialectical relationship, and--having exposed ethnicity's roots, to argue that the old demon must be exorcized...
...story was written by Education Editor Annalyn Swan and researched by Reporter-Researcher Ellie McGrath. Both are recent college graduates who found that their public school years did not prepare them well for what was to come. "I hadn't read enough classics and had never taken essay exams before I got to college," says Swan, who went from Biloxi High in Mississippi to Princeton. "My high school and those we visited for this story don't anticipate the challenges of the outside world; they seem to equate excellence with elitism." McGrath, a 1970 Gloucester (Mass.) graduate, concurs...
Even that ambitious passage from his 1947 essay A New Refutation of Time contains a self-effacing shuffle. Borges disarms that ancient foe, ineffability, by questioning his own existence. He has done so in dozens of fanciful tales bearing such tantalizing labels as Death and the Compass, Funes, the Memorious and Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius. Despite his arcane references, the aging (78), blind, Argentine author has gained a worldwide readership. His ficciones have also attracted numerous imitators - none of whom have the old man's grace, wit and almost magical skills of compression. A Borges story...
...Your Essay entitled "Yes, There Is an Energy Crisis" [Oct. 10] expressed the same criticisms of the President's energy