Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...application for admission to Harvard College is a 22-page packet of forms; applicants have to write a lengthy essay and send in a battery of transcripts, test scores and recommendations. The admissions office takes about one out of every ten applicants...
...apologize for responding so promptly to your Essay "The Fine Art of Putting Things Off." One reality that must be propounded is that only those of us loners (freelance writers, artists, commission salesmen, et al.) are entitled to claim it as an art or skill. For us, risk is involved. We gamble our livelihood against losing work or sales. For people on a salary, it is simply called dishonesty...
...dignity recommend that doctors be allowed to cease extraordinary lifesaving efforts when it is clear that the patient is beyond further help. The living are counseled to ease the dying person's final agony by keeping him company during his last hours. This approach to terminal illness (TIME Essay, July 16, 1973) has won wide support, including the approval of Protestant, Roman Catholic and Jewish moralists...
...Tetley's twin-track career. Born 48 years ago in Cleveland, he took classical training, then studied modern dance with Martha Graham and Hanya Holm. In Europe since 1962, he has worked mainly with the Netherlands Dance Theater. There his most publicized work was Mutations, an hour-long essay on aggression that ended with the dancers literally stripped bare...
...Gabor will indicate that no one grows old anymore. The same observation can be confirmed by scrutiny of the "then" and "now" photographs in the 25th Anniversary Report of the Harvard College Class of 1949. "Youth's a stuff will not endure," wrote George Orwell in his essay on "The Art of Donald McGill," but that prediction may well prove less accurate, in the long run, than his views...