Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that the book's function is to serve, in Fielding's terms, as a bill of fare before whatever feast the reader might desire, he spent years scouring all available sources to uncover a selection of admirable breadth. There are extracts from Pope's Dunciad, Rape of the Lock, Essay on Man, and assorted Epistles and Elegles. Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes is printed in full, as are Swift's Description of the Morning and his Verses On The Death Of Doctor Swift. There are generous selections from Mathew Prior, Isaac Watts, John Gay, Thomas Gray, Oliver Goldsmith, Christopher...
...nominate a professor or teaching fellow, students had to submit a short essay explaining why the instructor could excite and show concern for undergraduates...
...couse no one should be required to write "politically correct" term papers. But the President of the Forum, who claims that essays "were chosen to represent a range of academic disciplines," clearly complied the selections with a very narrow and conservative outlook on what constitutes quality and what is appropriate in academic writing. Perhaps these papers are their own best defense. But what of the hundred others rejected by the Forum? Were there no worthy hard social science or Women's Studies papers among them? The Forum at least attempts to excuse itself for excluding natural science papers as being...
Inevitably, the mind-set represented by all of the above has had some bearing on the material selected for inclusion in the Forum's first issue. All six essays are well-written and interesting. This is not all they have in common. All six are to a greater or lesser degree about Great men, be they poets, scientists, apostles or philosophers, and their Great Ideas. Ordinary human beings appear fleetingly: as an historical abstraction in a Gov paper and in passing references to "the common man" in the above-mentioned medievalist paper. The only women even mentioned are two Marys...
...German contradiction is also embodied by Wagner, who wrote the noxious anti-Semitic essay Jewry in Music, yet who also allowed Hermann Levi to conduct the premiere of the Christian epic Parsifal at Bayreuth. Faust, the national symbol, might be speaking for both Luther and Wagner when he says at the beginning of Goethe's play, "With keen endeavor I have studied philosophy, jurisprudence and medicine, and even, alas, theology. And yet here I stand, a poor fool no wiser than I was before...