Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TIME's Essay "Guarding the Door" [June 2] dealt well with the issue of a continued welcome to immigrants until the last paragraph. There Lance Morrow suggested that the rational lines must be drawn as to whom we can accept...
Finally, bringing back the draft would signal to the world that the U.S. is ready to do what is necessary to maintain its military might (see ESSAY). This was a point implicitly made by West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt after visiting the U.S. in March. Said he: "There's a difference between a country that has a military service obligation . . . and a country which has abolished the draft...
...what to do about the little problems, rather than advising them how to look at the bigger picture of how to evolve a fulfilling academic life or how to seek advice. Laura Riley, one of six students on FTF, says FTF chooses its representatives on the basis of an essay and two interviews, where they are tested out on case study questions such as, "What would you do if someone said that their roommate is homesick and wants to drop...
...identified with the surrealist writers, a school he once described as "a negation of the contemporary world and at the same time an attempt to substitute other values for those of democratic, bourgeois society." His best-known works include El Laberinto de la Soledad (The Labyrinth of Solitude), an essay on Mexican character described by Irving Howe as "a central text of our time" and long metaphysical poems like Piedra de sol (Sun Stone) and Blanco...
...wasn't old enough to vote in the 1928 Presidential election, but I got steamed up about it. At home I had won a prize for an essay supporting Hoover and at College on election night we all went to the Union where Albert Bushnell Hart gave the returns and told us what they meant. It was a sad day for Al Smith. A year later, the Great Depression was on. On the day of the Stock Market Crash there were no Transcripts or Travelers left in the Business School dining hall. Those businessmen, including President Hoover's youngest...