Word: essayed
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Charles Krauthammer's story on religion and politics [ESSAY, Sept. 24] inexplicably distorts the distinction I drew between Government policy and private choice. Obviously my speech on tolerance does not suggest that help for the poor, racial discrimination and murder are "private choices," since in every case more than the welfare of the individual is involved. No one in our society questions that. But there is a deep division within our society about whether this is the case with respect to abortion. Appropriately then, it is a matter for individual and not Government decision. Krauthammer's misreading...
Gauguin's stay in Tahiti and the Marquesas from 1891 to 1903 is by now one of the soap operas of art history. Yet the curious fact, as Varnedoe points out in a brilliant catalog essay, was that Polynesian art made virtually no impact on his painting; all its primitive elements-the flatness, the sinuous friezelike poses, the outlining-were either there already or deduced from photographs of Javanese, Cambodian and other Oriental material that he took with him. (One should not forget that in the 1880s, Frenchmen were still talking about Japanese art as art pri-mitif.) When...
Collegiate social studies teacher Massimo Maglione, in a recent essay updating the school's history, argues that the school was actually started in 1628, not 1638--which would make the elite all-boys school eight years older than Harvard...
...philosophy, reflected in the two newly published books, took on a more complex aspect in a different work, the powerful 1965 essay "The Lonely Man of Faith." The essay contrasts the first Adam of the Creation, depicted in Genesis 1, and the second Adam, depicted in Genesis 2. The first Adam boldly subdues the earth, while the second Adam humbly quests for God. Both Adams exist within each person and are mandated by God, Soloveitchik holds, but in modern times the first Adam threatens to overwhelm the second, and has even become "demonic." When the second Adam begins to speak...
...essay, existential in tone, is one of the most personal expressions ever voiced by a modern Talmudic authority on the elemental power of religious faith and the ways in which the joy of life often comes mixed with longing, torment and despair...