Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fascinating essay, she frankly describes her own growth, paying tribute to her roots and discussing the writing of her Pulitzer-prizewinning novel The Color Purple. Those who first come to know Walker through this remarkable piece of fiction will be delighted by her lucid and insightful essays, which are infused with as much warmth and wisdom as her fiction, but moreover reveal a Walker that differs appreciably from the groping, just-awakening character of The Color Purple's Celie...
Although her historical accounts of key events in the civil rights movment and accompanying evaluations of their consequences are intelligent and thoughtful. Walker is at her best when she weaves her own experience into the narration. In a 1971 essay about Coretta Scott King, the author remembers having met her as a freshman at Atlanta's Spelman College, when she and some classmates met with Mrs. King at her home. Having idolized Dr. King, she remembers hoping that Coretta was good enough for him Years later, after his assassination, she glimpses Coretta King once again, and has very different thoughts...
...fact, the title essay. In Scarch of Our Mothers' Gardens, is arguably the best work of the collection. It is a lyrical paean to maternal ancestry, a tribute to the Black women who suffered and died and were enslaved in this country and elsewhere, women who stifled their formidable creativity in order not to lose their minds. In it, she captures the mystical, earthy qualities of mother-hood and spiritual creativity, two of her central themes. She recounts the poet Jean Toomer's discovery in the South of the 1920's women: whose spirituality was so intense, so deep...
...your Essay "Journalese as a Tongue," the language used by [Feb. 6], you apparently forgot to mention "marathon bargaining session." Not one labor dispute is ever settled without such a meeting, which, of course, "narrowly averts a walkout...
...Your Essay on euphemisms [Jan. 9] mainly took to task government officials who deal in doubletalk. But now even veterinarians are getting into the act. NEUTER IS NEATER said the poster in the vet's office. Neuter merely sounds negative, whereas castration implies something final. We decided that we would have our dog neutered...