Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Charles Krauthammer's article "Holiday: Living on a Return Ticket" [ESSAY, Aug. 27) is a sad commentary on our society. If we were not so self-indulgent and hedonistic, we would not be in need of vacations on which people immerse themselves in drugs, participate in wars or make moral judgments on other societies. A trip to the beach would probably suffice...
...application essay gives candidates their only opportunity to personalize an otherwise quantitative file of information. "Present yourself and your qualifications as you wish in a brief statement below," the form directs, allowing two pages for the response. Geraghty notes that students who begin along the lines of "Law is an integral part of modern democratic society" tend to fare poorly in the final judgment...
...part of the preview of the sights, sounds and statistics of the Los Angeles Summer Olympics that appeared in its July 30 issue, TIME presented closeups of several individual athletes, many little known outside their home countries and specialties. Nineteen athletes appeared in a Neil Leifer photo essay that showed each of them against a background of a national landmark. In addition, nine American athletes, participating in events like archery that normally attract scant U.S. public attention, were introduced. How did these competitors fare in the Olympics...
...name of Gersaint's shop, Au Grand Monarque, but also to the death and burial of the Sun King himself. The shop sign is at once an elegy, a work of art criticism (for no painting on the walls is there by accident) and an inspired essay of social observation. It begins what Watteau would have done with his maturity. But a few months later his lungs were gone, and he was dead. -By Robert Hughes
...Come to the River is set to an original text by British Playwright Edward Bond. The principal themes-the evils of fascism and the brotherhood of the masses-are ones that Henze has previously explored in such vocal works as the Essay on Pigs (1968) and El Cimarrón (1969-70), written in Cuba. "New museums, opera houses and premieres are not necessary," Henze declared in 1967. "What is necessary is. . . the greatest work of art of mankind: the world revolution...