Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hold a graduate degree in theology...you are not, and I must repeat are not, a 'religious' man in any sense meaningful to the overwhelming majority of the duties incumbent upon you as director of the Office of Fiscal Services. As Ortega put it so succinctly in his essay on Concord and Liberty, the word 'religio' does not derive from religare, to bind--that is, man to God. The adjective, as is often the case, has preserved the original meaning of the noun, and religious stands for scrupulous, not trifling, Conscientious. The opposite of religion thus would be negligence, carelessness...
...REVOLUTION. A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection by which one class overthrows another...
...Scala to stage La Traviata. Since then he has directed several operas there. Collaborating with Conductor Claudio Abbado has been satisfying, in part because both men thrive on lengthy discussion and painstaking rehearsal. Speaking of their Boccanegra production, Strehler comments: "Directing the opera is like writing an essay on it -an effort to unlock the essence...
After discussing the "American Legion Disease" [Aug. 16] with a group of fellow microbiologists, I read with interest John Knowles' Essay on "The Struggle to Stay Healthy." Knowles states that 200 years ago "divine aid was considered more important than that of the physicians. Only through God's grace could one escape disease or survive its attack." With this country's leading epidemiologists stumped for weeks, it seems that little has changed...
...television, last impressions are all. For a dozen years now Eric Sevareid, 63, has been the Dr. Johnson of the two-minute essay on the CBS Evening News. With his "somewhat forbidding Scandinavian manner" (as he has described it) and "a restraint that spells stuffiness to a lot of people," he has delivered so many thousand editorials, sermonets and sit-down comedy routines that the unkind younger generation has begun to refer to him as Eric Everyside...