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Word: essayed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Publishing a False and Misleading Romantic History. Last year I wrote a piece called Experimental Romance for the What Is to Be Done. This tongue-in-cheek essay investigated "Why I don't date Harvard women," sending up the old "There is no romance at Harvard" chestnut...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Like a Bat Out of Hell | 6/10/1987 | See Source »

...year after I wrote that piece, I got to read a virtual rewrite of that essay, now entitled "They Flee from Me," in a Lampoon parody of the What. To add insult to injury, a good friend of mind unwittingly complimented me for writing the Lampoon's parody, saying it was the best piece I had ever written. One freshman girl even took the parody so seriously she called me up to complain about...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Like a Bat Out of Hell | 6/10/1987 | See Source »

...piece, commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony for its 75th anniversary, is a 20-minute essay divided into four movements, each with a quotidian title: "Dawn," "Daylight," "Dusk" and "Darkness." Such tone painting is not surprising, for Harbison's music generally contains a strong theatrical element, reflected in his predilection for opera and song cycle. The symphony, however, is not some Americanized La Mer (whose first movement is titled "From Dawn to Noon on the Sea"); the sun may come up and the sun may go down, but it never sets on his cool rational spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Life for the Invalid | 6/1/1987 | See Source »

...world as it is, she seems only to have the place of a designation. The Aged Mother. Like a painting of the aged mother, or a play called The Aged Mother, or an essay in a magazine. Swathed in the shapeless dress, the indefinite hairdo, she has become something to be noticed and attended, as if she were forever on the verge of vanishing lest one remind oneself to look in on Mother. (And how's your mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Aged Mother | 6/1/1987 | See Source »

...Essay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page JUNE 1, 1987 Vol. 129 No. 22 | 6/1/1987 | See Source »

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