Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...read and reread Henry Grunwald's Essay, "The Morning After the Fourth ..." [July 14]. I can't think of anything the U.S. needs more on its birthday than a renewed respect for the power of reason, sweet reason...
After reading your Essay, I am moved to a sense of challenge and hope. I believe our country is in a crisis, especially of the spirit. Many are weary, many are worried. Inside most of us there must lie a sense of justice and decency. While it is true that we need unselfish, inspired leadership, we must also look to ourselves as responsible agents...
...inequality of income and wealth discussed in your Essay presents a moral problem only when those at the bottom lack the things that most civilized people view as imperative: a nutritious and varied diet, a decent place to live and an environment in which to raise children, and medical care. If we worked on equalizing the distribution of these elements of life, unequal income distribution could serve its purpose of stimulating and rewarding innovation, initiative and risk-taking without nagging so much at our consciences...
Last month Sakharov completed a 20,000-word essay titled My Country and the World, which will be published in the U.S. by Alfred A. Knopf later this year. In his introduction, Sakharov describes this new book as an updating of his widely publicized 1968 manifesto, Thoughts on Progress, Peaceful Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom, in which he called for rapprochement between the Communist and capitalist systems. The physicist writes that he decided to undertake the new project largely as a result of a discussion about détente in his Moscow apartment last November with New York's Conservative...
Describing himself as "a confirmed evolutionist and reformist," Sakharov begins his essay with a stinging, detailed indictment of Soviet domestic and foreign policy. He decries average living and working conditions, the "lumpenization" of the Russian proletariat ("Per capita consumption of alcohol is twice what it was in tsarist Russia"). He also chastises the government for its "Russification" of ethnic minorities in the U.S.S.R., its support of dictatorships in Libya and Uganda, and genocide against the Kurds in Iraq. In a highly technical chapter on disarmament, he draws upon his own scientific expertise to discuss the problems posed by "heavy" missiles...