Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Your Essay "Against a Confusion of Tongues" [June 13] should be posted in schools that have bilingual programs. The first priority of every immigrant should be to learn the language of the adopted country. Placing non-English-speaking students in separate classes merely prolongs the painful road of integration. Minorities will be second-class citizens as long as they insist on isolating themselves...
...response to your Essay on bilingual education, I would note that America has produced generations of strictly Anglophone college students who must turn to "ethnics" for the foreign-language competency that makes international business and diplomacy possible...
...Your Essay "Pacifism's Invisible Current" [May 30] speaks to the heart of the sad dilemma of the use offeree. The point of your article could have been said another way: A kind word and a gun will always get you more than just a kind word. Eugene L. Grossman Englewood, Colo...
While TIME may be right in saying that pacifism has not done well at solving conflicts, your Essay should have gone on to explain that the use of force has all too often been catastrophic. Instead of deriving a perverse satisfaction from the weakness of pacifism, you should have been terrified about the future...
...baccalaureate exam, the nationwide test that determines at what level a student can enter the university. There is a bac given for each lycée track. The typical exam schedule involves ten hours of tests over a two-week period. All written exams are of the essay type (sample question: "Compare and contrast the roads to power of Hitler and Mussolini"), and most bacs culminate in an oral exam. To enter the grandes écoles, students must take another set of tests called concours, which generally demand an additional two years of preparation. The time is often well spent...