Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...banks than in any other U.S. city except New York. In Fresno, Calif., he found a county as agriculturally productive as many entire countries ("... 5,500 tons of figs, 40,000 tons of black olives, 175,000 tons of peaches..."). Not surprisingly, in Kahn's 3,500-word essay, the last word...
...Manhattan neo-Stalinist school of the '30s and '40s (though she was never a supporter) and in the '60s revived her interest in Matters political to take an active part in the antiwar movement. She made the ritual pilgrimage to Hanoi in 1968, and, in a long, moving essay upon her return wrote the following: "When love enters into the substance of social relations, the connection of people to a single party need not be dehumanizing. Though it's second nature for me to suspect the government of a Communist country of being oppressive and rigid...(against) that abstract suspiciousness...
...Essay "El Salvador: It Is Not Viet Nam" [Feb. 22] puts the contrast into perspective superbly. Remembering the past is one thing, but incapacitating foreign policy and national morale because of analogies to Viet Nam is dangerous...
Sontag, 49, has been an eclectic revolutionary ever since the early 1960s, when her dense, demanding essays prompted the New York literary elite to crown her Mary McCarthy's successor as the "Dark Lady of American Letters." In an essay on her 1968 trip to Hanoi, Sontag described herself as "a Western neoradical for whom revolution means not only creating political and economic justice but releasing and validating personal energies of all kinds, including erotic ones." McCarthy, who has long been a stalwart of the anti-Soviet left, was among those who stood up for Sontag after her Solidarity...
...wonders whether Cantor succeeded in persuading himself during the desperately political 60s and the painfully apolitical 70s, that it was no crime to be committed to writing for writing alone. Few of his essays end fully resolved; most leave troubling questions, and toward the close of one he admits. "I asked myself questions at the beginning of this essay that I now see I won't--oddly enough--be able to answer." His inability to back up his vision of a unified system of "imaginative moments" matters less, in the end, than the further musings such visions provoke. Literature...