Word: essayed
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Ever since his flippant remark three weeks ago about the presence of "a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple" (see ESSAY) on his coal-leasing commission, Watt's chances of staying in office have ebbed almost daily. The Secretary long ago alienated the left and center with his policy of opening vast tracts of Government-owned land to commercial exploitation. Now the Republican right fears that he will be a 1984 campaign liability to G.O.P candidates...
Virginia Woolf celebrated Mme. de Sévigné in a lyrical essay: "This great lady, this robust and fertile letter writer, who in our age would probably have been one of the great novelists ..." Thornton Wilder sketched an invidious portrait of the 17th century French author in The Bridge of San Luis Rey; the poet Alphonse Lamartine called her the Petrarch of French prose; Proust compared her art to Dostoyevsky...
...Essay beginning on page 24 details, two of the great themes of the past 60 years have been the excesses of freedom and the rediscovery of the need for restraint. In trying to define restraint, in trying to make the many choices before America, the country conspicuously lacks a consensus and a principle of authority. Journalism cannot supply these. But it can at least attempt to provide the information needed for a renewal of consensus, perhaps even a reconstitution of authority. TIME hopes to continue playing a part in that task...
Associate Editor Patricia Blake's latest book is the result of her collaboration on four anthologies of Russian prose and poetry in English with the late British translator and critic Max Hayward. Blake has now edited and written a long introductory essay for a collection of Hayward's articles, Writers in Russia 1917-1978, published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich...
...more TIME staff members have books that will be available next month. Contributor Richard Schickel's Cary Grant: A Celebration (Little, Brown) is a long essay on Grant's film career and the creation of his screen personality. Associate Editor Walter Isaacson's Pro and Con (Putnam) is subtitled Both Sides of Dozens of Unsettled and Unsettling Arguments, and consists of 60 chapters on controversies large and small from abortion to creationism to baseball's designated-hitter rule...