Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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First, the charms. The flamboyance and imagination which raise Sagan to something of a '70s cult figure rescue a lot a Broca's Brain. Sagan recounts, for example, a colorful and enthusiastic history of his profession, emphasizing the incredibly rapid blossoming of American astronomy. In an equally lively essay, he describes the ludicrous procedure scientists use to name newly-discovered craters...
...Medusa, however, while Thomas sustains the fine prose and short-essay style of the previous work, he abandons the quality that made the former special: he doesn't restrict himself entirely to his field, biology. Thomas's talent lies in his ability to notice, describe and comment on man and nature. When he strays from this pattern, he gets in trouble. In essays such as "Notes on Punctuation" he plays too many intellectual games, and his essay on etymology is simply out of place...
...believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided; more often it is a crisis invited"); assesses Charles de Gaulle, the Shah of Iran, Golda Meir and Yitzhak Rabin; and sums up the philosophy that he believes should guide U.S. foreign policy. He concludes with a moving essay on the role of faith in a technocratic...
Group seminars counted for credit last year included "The Knee." "Real Estate Broker Training, "Topics Relating to South Boston," "Dental Precentorship" and "New England Merchant's National Bank." Individual students created a photo essay on Mexico, invested their partents and their own savings in the stock market and studied "cabinetry...
Cheers for Lance Morrow's Essay on decadence [Sept. 10]. It's about time someone dug decadence out of the slime and put it in our laps...