Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thomas Griffith's Essay, "Corruption in the U.S." [Dec. 31], brings to mind a Latin phrase that seems to explain why many of us are uptight about the recent White House pursuits: Corruptio optimi pessima -the corruption of the best is the worst...
...Your Essay "Patients' Rights and the Quality of Medical Care" [Dec. 17] brings to mind an ancient Chinese custom. The Chinese, it is said, used to hire a doctor on a retainer and made regular payments to him as long as they remained well. When they became ill, they were guaranteed treatment, but the payments stopped until health was restored...
...firm faith in the adaptive strength of U.S. institutions, deriving from the populism of his Texas up bringing. In his memorable opening show of the season, "An Essay on Watergate," he recalled a high school teach er telling him, "There is no sight more beautiful in the world than a people governing." Moyers went on to trace his growing realization, gained during his Washington years, that in politics "high ideals compete ... all the time with the grubby demons of human nature, usually in the same personality." He concluded, proudly, that though it was a near thing, American ideals and institutions...
...Center for Thanatological Studies, while U.C.L.A. has a Laboratory for the Study of Life-Threatening Behavior. On the lecture circuit, "the subject of death is now outdrawing the perennials-sex and politics," writes Roman Catholic Theologian Daniel C. Maguire in the current issue of the Atlantic. Maguire's essay describes a new genre he calls "the thanatology book...
...horror-fantasy about a brave new world in which the aging were liquidated in the name of youth cult. In Last Rights she argues for allowing the aging to liquidate themselves, to arrange their own end when they judge death preferable to life. At the conclusion of her essay, Miss Mannes, now in her middle 60s, presents her own legal document of instructions, including the proviso: "I do not wish to survive a stroke that impairs my ability to speak or move, nor any accident or disease resulting in vision too impaired to see or read, or in total deafness...