Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...facto feminist," taking the position that every intelligent woman is a feminist--but she can also argue from the standpoint of a crusader for women's rights, a poet, a novelist, a pioneering critic of Canadian literature, a Canadian nationalist, and an Amnesty International activist. The essays in Second Words emanate from all these Atwoods. But the tone and approach of each essay strikes one note over and over again--the personal. She remains determinedly anecdotal, specific, and sardonic throughout: on Canadian poets, on Canadian-American relations in the 1980s, on being a woman writer, on her own attackers...
...Second Words, when she offers an analytic generality it is almost slipped in sideways, a manner well-suited to her ability to remain ironically outside the usual conventions of a critical essay. In a 1973 review of the Canadian poet John Newlove, she crashes defiantly to the point...
...example, in an essay on Niggrlan development, Bauer denies the need for poorer nations to industrialize. This is in agreement with the classical economic view that a nation should do what it is best at. But Bauer's recommendation suggests that Third World nations join a system rigged against them. Much like American farmers. Third World nations find the prices they receive for their products seldom keep pace with the prices of the things they must buy to satisfy their populations. They export items whose prices are largely dictated to them by richer industrial powers. The only group of exporters...
...disagree violently with some of my choices," writes Burgess in his introduction to 99 Novels, "I shall be pleased." Of course. Why put together such a list unless it is idiosyncratic and provocative? His selections, each defended in a brisk essay of a page or so, include such eyebrow raisers as Erica Jong's How to Save Your Own Life and Ian Fleming's Goldfinger. "It is unwise to disparage the well-made popular," he warns...
...cities and more than 20 foreign countries, the TWNS programming each week will consist of 15 condensed stories that will be aired throughout the day. The subject matter will range from cover articles through features on religion, science, politics, education, law and sports to reviews and an occasional Essay...