Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your Essay on history's tendency to repeat itself [Nov. 21]: in the past two decades history has taught us that we must respect another country's right to self-determination. Failure on our part to recognize this aspiration only leads to intransigence by the emerging nation. That is why our position in Nicaragua could very well lead us into a repetition of Viet...
...Laurent will probably respond with fiendish flare. If he does not, the reason may be that he is content to reaffirm those values quietly through his designs. One emerges from this retrospective sensing that this is a defiant stronghold of luxury and glamour. As Saint Laurent writes in an essay for the museum's catalogue: "I believe that the couture must be preserved at all costs and the term, like a title, protected from debasement." -By Martha Duffy
Historical distortions such as this make me seriously question the validity of Mr. Louis' essay. Jonathan David...
America, a 15-minute essay broadcast weekly over BBC radio to more than 1 million Britons. The program is rebroadcast to 50 countries on every continent. Last week Cooke turned 75, having recorded the 1,814th letter since his 1946 start. "The hardest time I had reporting this country sympathetically was during the shabby era of Senator Joe McCarthy," he says. Cooke is none too fond of the Reagan era either, contending that abroad the President "is seen as Teddy Roosevelt with a pack of missiles in his hand." And how is Cooke seen? "It's comic but true...
ONLY WHEN HARDWICK focuses upon a work of fiction does she unite form with content. The title essay, "Bartleby in Manhattan", is one of the finest in the collection. She takes Herman Melville's novella. "Bartleby the Scrivener", and dissects it as a verbal tour de force. Bartleby speaks only 37 times in a story of 16,000 words concerning himself, and each time he speaks he does so in a variation of the phrase "I would prefer not to." Hardwick convincingly equates Bartleby's character with the modern New Yorker; his footlessness is the predecessor...