Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McPhee is not a physicist but a journalist, one of the very best now writing, who specializes in the long, reportorial essay. He has written books about such things as oranges, tennis, ecology, an unlikely tract of New Jersey outback called the Pine Barrens and a group of men who tried to reinvent the zeppelin. Like all journalists dealing with science, McPhee is tethered by limitations in his readers' knowledge and imagination...
...Kubek's essay is a transplanted period piece, but Belfrage's book is no less dated. Editor of the National Guardian and a British citizen, Belfrage was deported from the United States in 1955. He has now written a detailed but superficial chronicle of the persecution of American radicals--whom he prefers to call "heretics"--in the post-World War II, pre-New Frontier...
Widow is neither a gracefully composed elegy nor a profound essay on grief. It threatens more than once to be a nonbook. But its very ordinariness gives Mrs. Caine's account its value. She has the naiveté and courage to pose the specific questions. How (and how not) to tell the children? "Get them to ask questions," she advises, and don't try to be "clinical" or "dispassionate." Instead, show your own grief, encourage them to cry. How (and how not) to write letters of condolence? "Praise is wonderfully welcome," she emphasizes, and so is "a little...
...biologist, traced man's scientific development in a widely acclaimed 13-part BBC television series, The Ascent of Man, which will reach U.S. TV audiences next season. Now he has adapted his scripts into a book. The result is a long (100,000 words), fascinating, beautifully illustrated essay about the qualities of curiosity, imagination and inventiveness that lead man to explore the world and the invisible laws that order it. The book is also an exercise in optimism. With so many scientists predicting that humanity will destroy itself, anyone who writes as enthusiastically about man as Bronowski does...
...sort of essay in the picaresque...