Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Your Essay "What to Do About Israel" [Sept. 7] is a disturbing approach to the multiple issues facing the Reagan Administration as it formulates its policy toward the Middle East. The Essay assumes, wrongly, that the U.S. can "do" something about Israel. America exalts the virtue of democratic leadership among our many friends, but whenever the exercise of democracy yields difficult policy disharmony, there are those who quickly forget that this is the price exacted by free governmental processes...
Congratulations on your Essay concerning Israel. You raised issues that needed to be examined. For a long time, I have been a supporter of Israel. Nevertheless our relationship with the Israelis should be reviewed and appropriate changes considered to deal with the realities of the 1980s...
Strobe Talbott's Essay deserves a Pulitzer Prize. It is the most in-depth picture of the problem...
...Your Essay "Where Have All the Insults Gone?" [Aug. 31] reminded me of a classic rebuff uttered by American Congressman and Statesman Thaddeus Stevens. While crossing a mud-covered Lancaster, Pa., street on a wooden plank in the mid-1800s, Stevens confronted a political adversary coming toward him on the same narrow walkway. His rival called out in disdain, "I never step aside for scoundrels!" Stevens quickly stepped back off the plank and into the ankle-deep mud and replied, "I, on the other hand, always...
...fidgets, jokes, interrupting others and even himself to question, explain or wonder. Emphatically unwilling to rest on his already considerable accomplishments and security, Gould consistently transcends the cynicism to reveal an almost boyish enthusiasm for the things he studies. Perhaps he summed up his philosophy best in the essay he wrote celebrating Mickey Mouse's 50th birthday. "In short," Gould concluded, "we, like Mickey, never grow up although we, alas, grow old. Best wishes to you. Mickey, for your next half-century. May we stay as young as you, but grow a bit wiser."STEPHEN JAY GOULD...