Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even so, Wasserstein's natural medium remains humor. As she explained in a painfully honest essay called "Funny Girl" in New York Woman magazine, "I don't think about being funny very much because it's how I get by. For me it's always been a way to be likable but removed." The result is that outsiders can misinterpret her manner and mistakenly belittle her talent. Playwright Terrence McNally complains that "what people often miss about Wendy is the thoughtful, passionate, mature womanly side of her. She is far more interesting as a mature artist than as this giggling...
...fourth essay, on the '60s, focuses on the Vietnam conflict. He was listed in a survey as writer outstandingly in favor of continuing American involvement in Vietnam, but Updike felt misrepesented. So he wrote a letter to The New York Times in 1966, "claiming that not only I but the president (whoever he was) was not an ostrich...
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...Hello. Have it. Good riddance," was the simple greeting of Astrid M. Carver '89 as she handed in her essay. The two students who followed her were busy peeling Coop price tags off their thesis binders, and didn't laugh...
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