Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concur with Roger Rosenblatt's Essay on the intimate relationship between politics and sport in the Olympic Games [Aug. 4]. But I regret the omission of any reference to the wealthy and flamboyant
...feel obliged to make a historian's observation on your fascinating Essay on friendship and patriotism [July 21]. Loyalty to friends is as old as mankind. Loyalty to the nation-state is a recent phenomenon, and will undoubtedly change with history. They are no more to be compared than religion and politics...
...then, in a characteristic run-in with the powers that be, Rooney quit over CBS's refusal to air his essay on war-written, he recalls, from the perspective of "a soft hardhat." The network sold him the piece for a nominal sum, and he took it to public television. Minus his old frontman, Rooney narrated the documentary, and so it was that his on-camera career was launched...
...past four years, Morrow has been a principal writer of the TIME Essay, which he calls "a combination of editorial, crank letter and private meditation." A onetime U.S. Senate page and Harvard English major, he came to the magazine in 1965 from the Washington Star. He has a bit of family history on his office wall: an old photo of Great-Grandfather Albert Morrow, a 19th century U.S. Cavalry officer. The younger Morrow's meditation on the rediscovery of America appears in the Nation section, but he brings to the subject the same subtlety, wit and fascination with...
Each week, the last page of the magazine features the "Time Essay." This week, Frank Trippett used the space to discuss "The Human Need to Break Records." Pointing to gigantic games of musical chairs and quick consumption of jalapeno peppers a proof, Trippett concludes,"Only humans striving for more than mere survival have elaborated competitiveness into the cultural imperative that it is . The obsession with setting records is finally inextricable from the human determination to rise above the past." Consider, in closing, another Trippett observation, "The act of dying," he says, "is one of the very few human activities that...