Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Frank Trippett's Essay "The Young Adult" [April 6] must not go unchallenged. The youth of today have chosen not to be looked upon as a phase, as the heroic hypocrites of the '60s were. Changing the world will take more than going barefoot and carrying signs. The '60s generation gave up their cause and were absorbed into nothingness. Theirs is not a hard act to follow. It deserves not to be followed. We are smarter...
...curiosity about who they may be is stifled by Close's relentlessly forensic approach. The images verify without interpreting; each face is as naked as a body, a piece of unveiled skin with orifices. It is neither blank nor expressive, but simply there-a topographical essay, like a fulsomely detailed map that has somehow acquired the gratuitousness of art. One is sharply reminded, after a little time in this show, that Close's real subject is not people: the heads, as Art Historian Martin Friedman points out in his catalogue essay, are "portraits of photographs," and their aggregation...
...Your Essay brings to mind a "blooper" by a Providence radio newscaster. In talking about a man missing in Narragansett Bay, the announcer said, "He is presumed drowned by the Coast Guard...
...Your Essay "Oops! How's That Again?" [March 30] made me laugh from beginning to end. English is my second language, and I make many mistakes. Instead of feeling embarrassed, I feel humble and have learned to take everything less seriously, at least for a little while...
...campuses, he says, it has become a cluttered "spare room" thoughtlessly located in student schedules somewhere between electives and degree-program courses. Boyer kicked off his crusade last week at a conference for 200 scholars and foundation executives at the University of Chicago. Participants received a 68-page Carnegie essay touting general education as an antidote to "self-preoccupation and social isolation." Its message: "All students should come to understand that they share with others the use of symbols, membership in groups and institutions, the activities of production and consumption, a relationship with nature, a sense of time, and commonly...