Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just wood, under light, put through a lens, chemically fixed. But the action of seeing it aright gathers so much meaning that Atget's photography can reasonably be called a moral act. As MOMA'S curator of photography, John Szarkowski, remarks in his admirable catalogue essay, "Atget's implicit confidence in the continuity and authority of culture was almost old-fashioned even in the time of his youth." But his peculiar and marvelous achievement was to have transferred that belief in continuity to the act of photographing, and to have shown it belonged there, just...
...national organization concerned with the operational safety of nuclear power plants and funded by nuclear power utilities recently awarded Daniel S. Hsieh '85 a $1500 scholarship for academic achievement and an essay proposing a solution to the energy crisis...
White, though, pulls it off, at least some of the time. Several of his essays here, for instance, tackle that slipperiest of themes, man in the machine age: one, "About Myself," employs a now-aged device ("I am married to U.S. Woman Number 067-01-9807"), but halfway through it, when he talks about his operator's license which will expire in 1943, it is clear he was the first to use this form. Cliche isn't when it's used for the first time, and the reason things become cliches (and then hackneyed cliches) is because they have...
...Your Essay says that the Moral Majority is pushing Congress to bring pressure on the Supreme Court to stay away from certain issues-notably abortion and religion. It also states that "judicial independence has been indispensable to the workings of U.S.-style democracy." What makes you think the Moral Majority wants any sort of democracy? They want to establish a U.S.-style Geneva, where Calvin rules...
...Your Essay correctly points to the New Right's attempts to force its narrow views upon the nation. The proposed legislation to limit federal court jurisdiction over broadly defined states' rights issues will be a mistake. These efforts to legislate around supposedly unpopular Supreme Court decisions only intensify my disdain for the New Right...