Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dean K. Whitla, associate dean of admissions, compiles all the information on each candidate and computer codes it to produce the "docket," a listing of each candidate, his test scores, interview reports, teacher recommendations, etc. Every shred of information, except perhaps the student's essay, has been reduced to a number on the one line he receives on the docket...
...least one subject, and most women probably do feel that their craziness is in some way linked to their being women, so Ephron's naled confession of her own craziness sets up a sort of bond between her and the reader. It's probably only coincidental that this essay is the first in the book--the pieces are arranged chronologically but it somehow justifies Ephron's assertive presence in the next...
...tendency to introduce herself and her reactions extraneously when writing about the other individual women in this book is one pitfall that Ephron slips right into. If often makes her appear condescending and unsympathetic, and it does much to weaken the important bond that Ephron established in her first essay...
...very well; he speaks simplistically of the American "working class" and suggests that every critic of Senator Henry Jackson's anti-détente stand is politically motivated. But Sakharov's is nonetheless a compelling voice, more measured than Solzhenitsyn's. Excerpts from the essay, as edited by TIME'S State Department Correspondent Strobe Talbott...
...following Bicentennial Essay is the second in a series that will appear periodically into early 1976 and will examine how we have grown in our 200 years...