Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...owner and wearer of more than 40 different hats, I enjoyed your Essay "In Praise of Serious Hats" [April 25]. I have a special reason for using one. Years ago my doctor recommended that I wear a hat to reduce sinus trouble because heat rises and keeps your head warm...
...technical journals. Two recent and related devourings: Peter the Great by Robert Massie and The 900 Days, Harrison Salisbury's account of the World War II siege of Leningrad. Last February, Biggs' weekly stock-market analysis included a quote from British Philosopher John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: "He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss...
...White House says, Reagan reviewed the material and polished it. The nonprofit Human Life Review, which has a circulation of some 10,000, did not pay the President, nor, according to Editor J.P. McFadden, was Reagan edited. McFadden suggested last summer to presidential aides that Reagan contribute an essay, and the manuscript arrived in the magazine's New York office only five weeks...
...essay by a recent sitting President is rare, but has precedent. Gerald R. Ford, among others, in 1976 explained "What America Means to Me" over two pages in the Reader's Digest. Richard Nixon wrote an 800-word piece for FORTUNE in 1970 on the natural environment, and then, having warmed up, turned out in 1972 the unquestioned record setter for a White House incumbent, a detailed analysis for U.S. News & World Report of U.S. foreign policy that ran a long 10,000 words...
...less clear, though, who gets the most out of these shows. Department-store types, impatient with any nonscheduled creative process, frequently say that these many-splendored displays give the designers a hard deadline to fix on. "They're an exam, an essay, a résumé," agrees Gianfranco Ferré. "They mean I have to get my point across in 20 minutes." The point can become blunted by both visual glut and fashion overkill, however. When the eight weeks of fall fashion previews are over, a member of the fashion corps could easily have seen more than...