Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know what was on that slip of paper burned by the Secretary of Hope in your Essay. "Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Strange Erasures" [Jan. 28]. I examined every line, parsed every sentence, even looked for clues by using the first letter in consecutive words...
...something new. Much of his work (Having a Wild Weekend, Deliverance) has been a remolding of traditional genres-the musical or adventure film-to suit a more personal, sometimes dour vision. For example, he and Screenwriter Alexander Jacobs transformed Point Blank from an ordinary gangster-revenge story into an essay in gun-metal existentialism and a portrait of Southern California absurdism that is still unrivaled. Zardoz, his sixth film, loses something of its predecessors' fighting trim. Although Boorman excels at expressing ideas through action, too many of them, and too muddled, are tossed off here and left lying about...
...found guilty of the Constitution's "high Crimes and Misdemeanors" and turned out of office before his time. Only once has a President been impeached by the House and stood trial in the Senate, and Andrew Johnson's ordeal took place a full century ago (see TIME ESSAY page 30). Yet unless Nixon resigns, and he insists that he will not, the 93rd Congress will surely find its place in history as the "impeachment Congress." The rubric will stand whatever the outcome, even should the House ultimately vote that there are insufficient grounds to support impeachment...
...told the kids that called me that the format would be essay and short-answer. I also told them to study their lecture notes. I never got more specific than that," Creevy said...
Stone's version of that liberal vision is woven of three ideals: justice, libertarianism, and pacifism. He values social order as a guarantee against violence and deplores the "urge to reach for the dagger" on both the right and left. In his essay on Kennedy's death "We All Had a Finger on That Trigger," Stone writes: "It is not just the ease in obtaining guns, it is the ease in obtaining excuses, that fosters assassination...