Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...part by Time Inc. -is called "The Search for Alexander." It opened last week for a five-month run at the National Gallery, after which it will travel for two years to museums in Chicago, Boston, San Francisco and New York. It is less a show than an essay...
Thomson: Symphony No. 3 and Helps: Symphony No. 1--Virgil Thomson's undeservedly neglected third symphony written in 1932 is a relaxed, almost placid essay that demonstrates contemporary music need be neither bizarre nor banal. Thomson seems to be one of the few Americans who will shoulder his way into the concert hall repertoire, probably with this symphony...
After receiving my issue of TIME and finding the Essay entitled "The Global First Amendment War" almost completely censored with thick, black ink, I must agree with one of the few lines I was able to read: "Their [developing countries'] governments are, and have long been, in firm control...
...Frank Trippett suggests in his Essay [Oct. 20], it can do no harm to ponder the price society pays for the abuse of trust. Americans are saturated with all forms of impressions that stem from the inability to separate fantasy from fact. Honesty is the best policy...
...another essay, "Ethnicity and Social Change," he ascribes the upsurge of ethnic identification to "a strategic choice by individuals who, in other circumstances, would choose other group memberships as a means of gaining some power and privilege." He argues that people choose ethnic identification because the increasingly bureaucratic social structure weakens other identities; traditional authority structures break down and hence there is an increased need for ethnic organization to achieve increased rights. He proves his case vigorously, but offers no therapy for the ills he diagnoses. He is assuredly a guardian of learning, a refined expert, and a trenchant critic...