Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Savoir. Two more different political films would be hard to imagine, yet both apply New Wave ideas of using the camera as pen. Malle treats the masses of Calcutta with touch of a journalist more interested in shocking than explaining. Godard's effort is billed as "an essay on language, film, and revolution"--somewhat heavier fare...
...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...
...your Essay: if there were as many American Arabs as there are American Jews, the Arabs, too, would be as articulate and influential. Then whom would the U.S. support...
Stevie Kidder, who is the hero of this essay, sat on the bench his sophomore year and did not get a big head at all. Junior year he got the goalie job after Messing and the rest of the team had gone all the way to the NCAA finals. Chris Papagianis told me at the time that Kidder was a "good kid, but just nowhere near as good as Shep." Papagianis, of course, had an interest in diminishing the performances of other since he had succeeded Messing as hot dog in residence. He loved being the grand...
AARON HAS ALWAYS been what might be described as gently suspicious of the rationalizations and idealizations of writers. He described a personal attitude toward history and literature elsewhere, in an essay called The Treachery Of Recollection...