Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vein that has nothing to do with art but apparently a great deal to do with Wolfe and his own historical standing. Wolfe has not been prolific lately, but his last major work was a book called The New Journalism, an anthology of pieces along with a long critical essay. The position Wolfe takes in The New Journalism is a clear extension of his earlier work. Wolfe in the sixties was frenetically active, innovative and controversial. Using intense research and attention to detail, a structure similar to that of short stories, and a breathless writing style he wrote about what...
SOMETHING MUST HAVE happened in the early seventies, as Wolfe's subject matter began to fade out of existence and he started to worry about his place in history. Hence the anthology, proof for the ages that the new journalism was significant. And hence his essay, which was intriguing but also an obvious attempt to beat the critics at their own game...
...Plain Joe, who eternally smudged the dynasty of the Third Stooge by daring to turn Curly's inimitable mannerism into a parody of fagdom), plays a lecture by Cantor and, what promised to be the show of all shows--a talk by Professor Martin Kilson. And a fifty dollar essay contest on "Why I Like the Stooges," the entries to be read aloud between films. Finally a live phone hook-up with the last surviving original Stooge, Moe, from his nest in an Old Actor's Home in Southern Cal. This last emerged as a taped interview with Officer...
Some guy got up to read his essay and lasted two minutes. The noise got louder and louder and he stood there lashed to the prow in the storm, blinking up into the lights. The beer cans began to fly again, raining in, just missing. He ended up in the corner standing confused, his big moment gone. "Show the fucking movie!" Soon after Curly was on the screen floundering in a tub while a fish flapped in his lap. Eighty minds clicked--half a dozen bodies stood up and hooted, shaking their fists in jeering excitement...
...predecessor, Nathan Pusey, had a lot to say about the role of the university in modern America in a book called The Age of the Scholar, In his essay, "Leadership and the University." Pusey warned of "excessive preoccupation with the ordinary in life and...idolatrous service to economic activity." Probably his best point came at the essay's conclusion...