Word: essayed
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TIME'S Essay "Looking Askance at Ageism" [March 24] reminds me of a delightful old fellow from Atlanta I met some years back. The future-minded gentleman, then 93, told me he had just purchased a large amount of acreage. When I asked what his plans were, he replied, "Well, I think I'll hold on to it for a few years, then develop...
Weathercasters: Mostly Cloudy As your Essay on the art of weathercasting [March 17] notes, TV weather reporters on occasion fall into a sort of self-satire. After the usual "happy talk" clowning with his colleagues, one announcer lapses into a discussion of the "good guys" and the "bad guys," which are the high and low pressure systems. They are represented on the weather map by happy and sad faces, looking like the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy...
...your Essay on frugality [March 3] and the "waste not" philosophy, you neglected to point out that all those wonderful virtues, such as making leftover chicken hash, turning collars and sewing stockings, were performed by tireless live-in grandmas and stay-at-home, father-knows-best housewives. Women now work, and hours can't be recycled. Besides, you can't darn the heels of a pair of pantyhose...
Pondering this winter's abnormalities, meteorologists can only agree that while they are able to make accurate short-range forecasts-clear and cold today, rain tomorrow-the long haul still mystifies them (see ESSAY) Admits Schneider: "This business of ours is, in many ways, still more of an art than a science." After this winter, few Americans would care to argue with...
...calm, its intelligent voice or its reputation for literary excellence. Except for The New Yorker, it remains the foremost showcase for serious fiction and poetry in the U.S. Among recent contributors: John Earth, Bernard Malamud, John Updike, Joyce Carol Gates and John Gardner. The March issue features an essay by Archibald MacLeish, a memoir by Isaac Bashevis Singer and a poem by Robert Perm Warren...