Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reasons he suggests--that the assumption is so cosmic that it might be accepted. It is rarely "accepted"; we aren't here to accept or reject, we're here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay it is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we, all like to be called assistants" net "graders"--you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your blue book...
...discussion of the various methods whereby the crafty student attempts to show the grader that he knows a lot more than he actually does, the vague generality is the key device. A generality is a vague statement that means nothing by itself, but when placed in an essay on a specific subject might very well mean something to grader. The true master of a generality is the man who can write a ten page essay, which means nothing at all to him, and have it mean a great deal to anyone who reads it. The generality writer banks...
This week's 31-page Man of the Year section includes an examination of the renewal of national pride in America, a close-up assessment of Ueberroth and how he achieved what he did, profiles of seven men and women who exemplified American entrepreneurship in 1984 and a photographic essay that recalls the glories of the Olympics...
Your article "At the Sound of the Beep ..." [ESSAY, Nov. 26] was wonderful. The fun in having an answering machine is hearing it ring while you are at home and not answering. That is power...
...poetry is easily understandable. It is essay poetry. In the beginning [of my career] it contained many rhymes and had a singing quality. Now it's poetry of free verse and some rhyme, but less emphasis on rhyme, and more inner rhythm...