Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your Essay "What Ever Became of the American Center?" [Dec. 19], you lament the death of the American center. Although you despair of both Democrats and Republicans, you offer the bleak observation that "third parties hi America gravitate not only to extremes but to irrelevance. (John Anderson's upcoming presidential campaign will undoubtedly confirm both tendencies...
Back in December 1980, Military Review, a journal of the U.S. Army, carried a cover story titled "The New Mental Battlefield." In his quirky essay, Lieut. Colonel John B. Alexander wrote that "there are weapons systems that operate on the power of the mind and whose lethal capacity has already been demonstrated." He equated the first strategic breakthrough in defense E.S.P. with sole possession of nuclear weapons and urged the U.S. to step up its research in the field...
...before he became notorious for what he is notorious for today, George Orwell wrote an essay called "Politics and the English Language," in which he stated the following...
Orwell notes in the same essay that the result of slovenly and misleading language is much like that of drink to an alcoholic...
...More than any other American artist of the 20th century," writes its director, Tom Armstrong, in the catalogue, "Willem de Kooning has added to the vocabulary of painting, altered the perception of what painting represents." Jorn Merkert's catalogue essay asserts that de Kooning "played perhaps the decisive role" in the development of abstract expressionism (notwithstanding de Kooning's own generous tribute to Pollock as the one who "broke the ice"). The purpose of canonization is well in hand; once again-though one must except Curator Paul Cummings' measured and enlightening essay on de Kooning...