Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Frank Trippett's Essay "On Leading the Cheers for No. 1" [June 8] helped somewhat to deflate our growing propensity for self-glorification. As has been said: "If you get someone else to blow your horn, the sound will carry twice...
...professional company working within a university, whether its professors are friendly or hostile. The academic community believes in treating art as a static object, a repository for beauty and truth that can be interpreted and reinterpreted, but only from without--only if you don't touch. An essay on As You Like It that outlined Shakespeare's underlying mockery of the pastoral mode of poetry, in other words, is quite acceptable, but a staging of the play with that in mind constitutes tampering with holy relics...
...might come closest to a definition of their aspirations," writes Schiff in his catalogue essay on early 19th century artists like Friedrich, Runge and Carl Gustav Carus, "by stating that 'longing' (Sehnen) was the first and almost the last word of German romanticism." These painters were men of exceptional seriousness, their sense of mission verged on the priestly, and they saw art as a powerful means of philosophic speech. As Schiff rightly remarks, one dictum of the writer Friedrich Schlegel appears to summarize their hopes: "Only he can be an artist who has a religion...
...back from someone else. In the past two weeks TIME's writers and editors were given four prestigious "pats," bringing to 28 the number of awards the magazine has received this year. TIME is especially pleased to be honored with a National Magazine Award for Essay and Criticism for three pieces written by Senior Writer Lance Morrow. The judges cited "Rediscovering America" (July 7, 1980), "The Return of Patriotism" (March 10, 1980) and "Back to Reticence!" (Feb. 4, 1980) as "sharply observed, deeply felt and very well written Lance Morrow examinations of contemporary American society." Says Morrow...
...SENSES, in some of these pieces, though, that Arlen really doesn't want to talk about television at all. A piece on "Dallas" becomes a piece on the transition of American manners; a piece on "Shogun" becomes a brilliant essay on captivity literature. Arlen writes in a fine, high style which is extraordinarily articulate, and often one feels television simply doesn't supply enough raw material. One senses, too, that after 11 years, Arlen would really rather be writing about something else; but as his criticism digresses, the results are intriguing in themselves. The author of such nonfiction books...