Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Although a Nixon supporter, I can find no fault with your excellent cover story and essay on the American press [July...
...survivor of "the old George Seldes-A.J. Liebling school" wishes to say that your cover story and Essay make up one of the fairest reviews of the journalistic situation he has read in the past 60 years. It is also one of the most alarming. The press deserved the attacks and criticisms of Will Irwin (1910) and Upton Sinclair (1920) and the muckrakers who followed, and it needs today the watchdog and gadfly activities of the new critical weeklies, but all in all it is now a better medium of mass information. It therefore deserves more public confidence than...
Alice, a musical adaptation of the Walt Disney classic, which is a cartoon adaptation of Lewis Caroll's essay on sex and revolution, is playing at the MIT Student Center this weekend. Rumor has it that the MIT Players wanted Derek Bok to play the Cheshire Cat (he does have such a nice smile), but it turns out he can't sing. Charles Colson, who can and did sing, was next in line for the role, but his new agent, a fellow Chuck calls "God," said there wasn't enough money in it. Whoever they...
...Guerre Est Finie is a political essay about the remnants of the Old Left revolution, directed by Alain Resnais and starring Yves Montand. The film is not casual entertainment in any sense, and if that's what you're up for this week see something else. But if you're interested in how it felt to be a leftist in the days of the party line, if you feel any sympathy at all for the single-minded pursuit of a political dream, then see this by any and all means. Resnais's movie will touch you, inform you, will make...
Back in Forest Hills, Queens, N.Y., more than three decades ago, a nine-year-old showman named Stefan Kanfer amazed his friends by producing coins and cards out of thin air. "It was the old up-the-sleeve trick," recalls Kanfer, now anchor man of TIME'S Essay section, "and the coins would generally clatter to the floor, to my embarrassment. As a magician, I had ten things working against me-my fingers." So the young Kanfer went to New York University and ended up writing advertising copy, gag lines for Victor Borge, short fiction, TV programs...