Word: essayed
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Henry Kissinger's Bicentennial Essay [Dec. 27] is an appropriate valedictory to a man of conceptual brilliance and subtlety who has never really understood or participated in the American sense of moral purpose. Kissinger has consistently tended to separate that which is moral from that which is practical. He has worked hard for the best possible deal for our "practical values" -security, prosperity, status and power -to the point where these values threaten to become our national goals...
Mexicans will be interested to learn, in Henry Kissinger's Bicentennial Essay, that the U.S. Secretary of State regards the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo as a "triumph of diplomacy." Force of arms, not diplomacy, was the means by which the U.S. stripped Mexico of half of its national territory. Today the U.S.'s regional hegemony depends on ownership of advanced technology, "credit diplomacy," preferential tariffs, import quotas, trade embargoes, and the politics of profit repatriation...
Hoodwinkery... swindle... prestidigitation. The themes of Orson Welles's ninety minute film essay. F for Fake, beckon from the press releases like metaphors of easy virtue. They beg to be used--as catch-words and commentary, not only on art forgery (the movie's main topic), but on movies themselves, on Welles as a director, on the art world in general, and on life. A real come on. It's enough to give any reviewer sweaty palms and a self-conscious stutter...
...Austin, Pittsburgh and New York City. Entitled "Women Artists: 1550-1950," it is the first full-dress historical survey of its subject ever made. The organizers are two distinguished scholars, Ann Sutherland Harris and Linda Nochlin. Their catalogue is the fundamental text on its subject. Professor Nochlin's essay alone, with its dense research and propulsive common sense, provides the right antidote to the tendentious stomp-the-pigs puffery of more militant feminist critics...
Staiger said yesterday the committee depends mostly on the essay the candidate submits and the six or seven comprehensive recommendations submitted on the candidate's behalf...