Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Apathy. Political scandals and corruption (see TIME ESSAY) will provoke widespread cries for reform. After the revelation that President Nixon paid only $792 in federal taxes on income of $262,942 in one year, the people will undoubtedly pressure Congress to raise the minimum tax and tighten up on deductions. Sentiment is building for some kind of public financing of elections so that the grubbier payoffs of Watergate will not be repeated. There will also be public pressure for laws requiring politicians to put on "public stripteases," revealing all about their finances...
BROTHERS AND SISTERS (Capricorn). A masterly essay from the Allman Brothers in how to blend rock, jazz and white rural Southern blues...
...young boy, I had always viewed my grandfather, who constantly scurried about the house turning off unused lights, water faucets, and the like, as a man of the past unwilling to face the bountiful future. But after reading Stefan Kanfer's Essay "The (Possible) Blessings of Doing Without" [Dec. 3] and my latest electric bill, I now know that I was disgracefully shortsighted. Indeed, who would have ever guessed that Grandfather was, in reality, a harbinger of things to come...
...original, which started this fall with a first printing of 500,000, and is into a second printing now. The customers would get much more absorbing reading about California if they bought Kevin Starr's book instead. It is better history, for one thing −a long historical essay reflecting on the meaning of the California experience. The Burr senior tutor at Harvard's Eliot House, Starr writes an occasionally musty prose that smells of the stacks. Still, he draws upon a wealth of material, and his research is lively. The best and worst of America wound...
...Essay deadlines for the Bowdoin prize for graduate students have been changed from...