Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...essay of April 5. "Too Many Vietnams," Per Jebsen attacks Senator Gary Hart for his unwillingness to use force. He further goes on to claim that removing American military forces from Central American will jeopardize stability in that region...
Drinking more heavily than ever, Barclay goes on the run from Tucker's persistent badgering ("I am a moving target," Golding has written in a confessional essay describing his own pursuit by eager scholars). Tucker tracks his prey to a resort in the Swiss Alps and makes his pitch: "Wilf. I want you to appoint me your official biographer." He tacitly offers his beautiful but dim-witted wife to seal the bargain. Barclay resists this awkwardly staged temptation, but he winds up indebted to Tucker all the same. During a fogbound mountain walk, the author leans on a guardrail...
Your story on pornography is critical of the Minneapolis city council's attempt to ban pornography on the ground that it violates women's civil rights [ESSAY, March 12]. From the day she is born, a woman must deal with the offensive message that comes from pornography and with the real violence that results from demeaning displays. Through advertising, films, music and magazines, a woman is bombarded with offensive messages as to her purpose and worth. This does indeed violate her civil rights...
Your article "Journalese as a Second Tongue" [ESSAY, Feb. 6] is very good stuff. Obviously, space limitations prevented you from referring to that sort of political mission known as "fact finding." I went on such a mission once, found a fact, picked it up with tweezers, and now keep it in a cigar box in my garage in case there is ever any demand...
...take strong moral stands often feel that they have been tricked into doing so, that they will now be dismissed either for impractical idealism or for boring preachiness. White's sensitive health and unaggressive integrity, taken with the fact that he wrote in the highly personal form of the essay, made him vulnerable to shrill attacks long before vulnerability was the fashion...