Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cooke's America and Kenneth Clark's Civilisation. Last winter Xerox decided that nothing would be more natural than to copy the process. It sponsored "the first Xerox special in print"−Pulitzer prize-winner Harrison E. Salisbury's Travels through America, a 23-page personal essay that appeared in the February issue of Esquire, sandwiched between two low-key Xerox ads that explained the innovation. Last week the first Xerox special somewhat embarrassingly turned out to be the last, and all because the company ran up against a reader on Allen Cove in Maine...
...psychobiographical analysis, she denies the frame of reference provided by the Pentagon Papers, and their interpreters. A far more logical explanation for some of Johnson's moves--the desire to stave off a defeat through stalemate until the next election, put forward by Daniel Ellsberg in his 1971 essay "The Quagmire Myth and Stalemate Machine"--is totally ignored...
...Ellsberg's essay he warns us to be aware of the Townsend Hoopes's and the Goodwins (Richard Goodwin, speech-writer for Johnson, now husband of Kearns who helped her write the book), former officials under LBJ who try to "objectively judge" the Johnsonian presidency with respect to the war, but end up underwriting "the deceits that have served importantly a sucession of Presidents to maintain support" for the immoral intervention in Vietnam...
...first glance Kearns seems to be coming from a different perspective. She writes in the opening of her book that she co-authored an essay for the New Republic about how to remove LBJ shortly before coming to work in the White House in 1967. That essay, however, accuses Johnson of little more than flagwaving and is mostly a polemic agitating for a third party. Whatever leftist baggage she may have had when she went in to the White House, she apparently lost much of it coming out. She has produced a work that is devoid of any political scrutiny...
...required if a student thinks he has something better to do. A "paper" is required at the year's end, but the work has taken such form as a dance by one student who studied dance by one student who studied dance cross-culturally, and even a verbal essay on the benefits of following after one's own thinking and one's own desires...