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Word: essayed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...application that included an essay, a face shot and a bathing suit photo craned her a trip to New York for the competition's final round And although she could not attend-she was playing in a tennis tournament that weekend-the magazine selected Evans as the runner-up anyway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Erans Trades Tennis Sneakers for High Heels, Ends Three-Year Career as Harvard's Top Seed | 10/2/1984 | See Source »

...Ivory Coast, where the essay is set, the physical manifestations of economic growth have been shrines of a sort to a heritage of backwardness. The tribesmen have been taken out of the country to sit in glass and concrete skyscrapers in Abidjan, the nation's modern capital. But human sacrifice still exists in the villages on the other side of the verdant 18 hole golf course at Yamoussourko...

Author: By Gilad Y. Ohana, | Title: Leaving the Center | 9/27/1984 | See Source »

...book's second essay, "The Crocodiles of Yamoussourko," that may reveal the most about Naipaul--more, in fact, than he may have intended. The Naipaul we meet in the first essay is, by his own admission, an innocent. The essay begins with his first moment of artistic creation--a sentence about a family black sheep named Bogart. He wrote the sentence, the first line of his first story, in a BBC staff room in London 30 years...

Author: By Gilad Y. Ohana, | Title: Leaving the Center | 9/27/1984 | See Source »

...notions of the death of God, the will to power and the rise of a superman would become one of symphonic literature's greatest hits? Yet long before Director Stanley Kubrick popularized its spectacular organ and brass apostrophe in 2001: A Space Odyssey, Strauss's blazing essay in orchestrational virtuosity ranked high in audiences' esteem. Maazel and the Viennese give this mettle tester a commanding reading, capturing the grandeur of its arresting introduction, the suavity of its incongruous waltz and the enigma of its bitonal ending. The rarely encountered, frankly Wagnerian tone poem Macbeth, Strauss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Obscure Bits and Greatest Hits | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

...Women, like our Negroes in our western plantations, are born slaves, and live prisoners all their lives," declared the anonymous author of An Essay in Defense of the Female Sex. Lady Antonia Fraser confirms this low appraisal of the state of many 17th century Englishwomen. But not all. Her indefatigable and lively research shows that a number of spirited females refused to get along and go along with a loveless marriage, contracted with an eye on a dowry and followed by a dozen children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: She-Soldiers and Acid Tongues | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

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