Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Should you wander from the straight and narrow path in the academic realm, the Handbook has plenty of provisions for steering you back toward propriety. Heavily over committed to various athletic and social diversions, let's say, you decided to lift an article from Sports Illustrated for an essay due the next day. (True story; Boy Scouts' honor.) The only problem is that the issue is from that week, and your section leader has just finished it himself. Hello, Ad Board; hello, page 38: "In preparation of all papers and other work submitted to most course requirements, students should...
Reagan inspired scant confidence by using his press conference "to get a little more publicity for the American people to urge their Congressmen to adopt the constitutional amendment" requiring a balanced budget (see ESSAY). One reporter had an apt question: "[Aren't you] presiding over the biggest budget deficit in history and telling the American people, in effect, 'There ought to be a law against what I'm doing?' " Reagan insisted, fairly enough, that the big budget deficits cannot be laid solely "at an individual's door." Then he turned the question around, asking...
Writing under such conditions becomes no longer the act of clarifying thought, but mere stenography. It is debased even further by the pseudo-objective postures teachers frequently require their students to adopt--"This essay would like to analyze..." --as well as the sometimes well-meant but usually misshapen advice to "place the writer's thinking in the background," a suggestion students often disastrously take to heart...
Lance Morrow's Essay on daydreams [June 28] illustrates a sad fact of modern life. Often we deny our most basic needs and desires by settling for second best. The antiself represents our true instincts before they are crushed by society and forced to retreat to the background...
...many of the issues of the women's movement, from housework to abortion, were so basic to so much received wisdom that they seemed, by prospect or in perspective, either trivial or threatening. "Attention was finally being paid," Joan Didion wrote in a 1972 essay, "yet that attention was mired in the trivial. Even the brightest movement women found themselves engaged in sullen public colloquies about the inequities of dishwashing and the intolerable humiliations of being observed by construction workers on Sixth Avenue. ... It was a long way from Simone de Beauvoir's grave and awesome recognition of woman...