Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Your Essay on an American memorial to the Holocaust victims [May 23] speculates on the propriety of a monument to an event that is "utterly European" and "a horror in which Americans had no part." The responsibility for the Holocaust should not be limited to the Nazis and their collaborators. We who knew of the horror and did not stop it are also guilty. Reports of the death camps were smuggled to Allied authorities with the urgent appeal that the rail lines to the camps and the gas chambers be bombed. This request was denied because, it was said, these...
Schapiro has published eight books, including seminal works on Cezanne and Van Gogh, but his more common forum has been the essay. He has written more that 180 essays of art criticism, which have appeared in a wide variety of journals...
Much of Schapiro's work has focused on modern art, but is celebrated for its incorporation of the study of art of other periods--notably early Christian and Medieval. Among his most famous works are a series of essays on Cezanne's apples, to which the art historian affixes various social and psychological meanings. In one essay, Schapiro calls the fruit examples of "displaced erotic interest...
This is a test. But not only a test. My essay is on reading and I am testing the limits of my reader I have got his her attention and he she is either with me or against...
That is not quite what Emerson had in mind in his 1841 essay on "Friendship." Still, in all seven cases, Michaelis aptly demonstrates what the transcendentalist meant when he said that men are bound "by every sort of tie, by blood, by pride, by fear, by hope . . . by every circumstance and badge and trifle." By Patricia Blake