Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent years, Erikson has been the target of growing criticism. Students complain of the ambiguity and elusiveness of his pronouncements. Feminists denounce him for his 1963 essay, Womanhood and the Inner Space, in which he insisted that anatomy is destiny, and that a woman is "never not a woman." He recently repudiated his long-held sunny view of the American character and depicted the nation as a world bully that has "transgressed against humanity and nature." One of his critics, University of Michigan Psychologist David Gutmann, wrote in Commentary last fall that Erikson "has begun to sound less like...
...women: Erikson's clarifications of his 1963 essay do not clarify much. He seems to be saying that biology is destiny, sort of. He describes again his clinical observation of the play of pubescent children: he saw girls building low enclosures, that contained more people than the high towers the boys built. This suggested to him that women have a heightened sense of inner space and nurturing, partly derived from anatomy. He still thinks...
STRUCTURED AS AN extended essay on the relation between the amateur snapshot and the work of serious photographers. The Snap Shot also offers a wide view of the present state of photographic art. Included are works from established names, such as Robert Frank and Lee Freidlander and from the less well-known but increasingly important photographers such as Nancy Rexroth. Despite important differences in method and sensibility, all strive to snatch meaningful fragments of modern life. Quickly seen and quickly taken, the snapshot is a glimpse of a fast-moving society. It represents a new approach to reality in that...
...trial was the publication, since 1971, of four of his articles by Posev, a stridently anti-Moscow Russian-language journal published in Frankfurt by Soviet émigrés. All the articles had earlier appeared in Western journals, including the New York Times and the New Leader. In an essay on Russian Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Mihajlov noted that the true artist "really endangers the dictatorship of the Soviet Communist Party." In another work, he accused Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito of permitting a "cult of personality" and denounced the Yugoslav "party oligarchy" for attempting "to reintroduce total dictatorship...
...might be expected. Napoleon also takes several curtain calls. The great British historian G.M. Trevelyan (in a 1906 essay that gave the other writers the idea for this collection) has Bonaparte win at Waterloo, then plunge Europe into decades of troublesome peace. England is unable to disarm because of the danger that he still represents and is ruined by the cost of its huge military establishment. (The ubiquitous Byron, in this version, leads an unsuccessful workers' rebellion against George IV and is executed.) H.A.L. Fisher's Napoleon is a bit more believable. At 46, he escapes to America...