Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...learned later from an insider that I'd actually failed my orals, though I'm not supposed to know this. Children, for god's sake, don't doubt your elders. I may be the first Harvard student to get two summa readings and a prize for a separate essay and yet fail his orals. I'm still graduating honors, but not before being forced to realize what a flop I'll be at cocktail parties. As of now I'm unemployed, but I think I have a future writing Salada tea bags...
...numberless outtakes from the pictures he made in 1916-17 for the Mutual Film Co., which are now controlled by a silent-film collector-impresario, Raymond Rohauer. From hundreds of hours of this material, the pair has fashioned not only a priceless contribution to film history, but an essay that makes visible that most invisible of human endeavors, the creative process...
...Commission on Excellence in Education noted that only 20% of all 17-year-olds can write a persuasive essay, and only one-third can solve a math problem requiring several steps. A recent study by the U.S Chamber of Commerce found that 35% of corporations surveyed had to provide remedial basic-skills training to new employees. AT&T alone spends $6 million annually to teach workers reading and math skills...
...comes yet more. Volume X, titled Companion, is a kind of Pepysopedia, ranging from biographical sketches of all the myriad characters to a 25-page essay on Pepys' passion for music. "Music and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is," he confessed. Volume XI, finally, is an index, bibliography and list of corrections, and with that, this handsomely definitive work is done...
...reasons he suggests--that the assumption is so cosmic it may sometimes he accepted. It is rarely "accepted", we aren't here to accept or reject. we're here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your blue book, he can only...