Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...page, 3,000-word essay's most memorable passages, if only for their high-pitched earnestness, graphically express Reagan's strong views. He attacks Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down state laws prohibiting abortion. Since then, the President says, "more than 15 million unborn children have had their lives snuffed out by legalized abortions." Turning almost harrowingly explicit, Reagan writes: "The real question today is not when human life begins, but, What is the value of human life?The abortionist who reassembles the arms and legs of a tiny baby to make...
...power he desired. In hundreds of reviews and in books like Axel's Castle, he introduced a wide and insular American audience to the world's leading writers and most important historical events. To the Finland Station gave depth and drama to the Russian Revolution, and his essay "Oo, Those Awful Orcs!" deflated The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit long before they became cult books. By the beginning of World War II, he had failed to examine only one contemporary figure: Edmund Wilson...
...connections to our ordinary ways of life clear and uncommonly affecting. Take Dorsey, for example. He combines a holy man's zeal, a performer's ego and a revered older man's self-contentment, and the film's portrait of him becomes a little essay on the patriarch as enigma. Or consider Delois Barrett Campbell. Onstage she is a shatteringly forceful singer. Off stage she is married to the minister of a humble church who has trouble understanding the ambition that must lie behind a talent as large as hers. Like any wife whose career...
...those children was eight-year-old Nikola. Transported to the U.S. to join a father he had never met, the boy discovered the cathartic power of words when he wrote a school essay about his mother's death. He took the name Nicholas Gage and grew up to become an investigative reporter and foreign correspondent for the New York Times. Gradually, the grief of his childhood returned as an obsession. In 1979 Gage quit the newspaper to learn how and why his mother had been killed. He planned a crime of vengeance. He failed at that...
...controversial. Times readers are used to his overly reasonable approach to subject where intellectualizing is completely inappropriate. Only rarely does Rockwell take the bull by the horns and confront the reader with a controversial statement. One case in which Rockwell does reach for eloquence is in his essay or. Latin musician Eddie Palmieri, one of his finest chapters. He writes...