Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Goodman's essay, entitled "The Captain's Self-Portrait: John Smith as Chivalric Biographer," discussed the autobiographical writing of Captain John Smith in terms of the romance novels and popular fiction familiar to him, Goodman said yesterday...
...their cultural distinctiveness. Another kind of excursion was plotted by the late English scholar Max Hayward, whose introduction covers the entire span of Russian history, with diverting digressions on such topics as peasant life, Cossack lore, the liberal intelligentsia and Russian tycoons. A 15-page miracle of compression, the essay is a learned, graceful and witty commentary on the book's fugitive images of every day life...