Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...history of conflict. King had accepted Hegel's view of history, namely, that there was a dialectical process of progress and growth through pain. But the dialectical idea for King, the notion of struggle, was also taken over from Gandhi and Thoreau, especially from the latter's essay on Civil Disobedience. King believed in struggle, in a kind of war, if you like, but a war in Gandhi's terms, "without violence." But King's view of history required that the large mass of men be led by leaders who believed in the highest ideals. Yet, he added a democratic...
...your Essay "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" [Dec. 20], when will our society re-evaluate its use of capital punishment? We, who like to think of ourselves as responsible and humane, should outlaw this practice...
...next year, when all the roommates were seniors, the fourth and final member of the suite enrolled in History 1375. Like he majority of her roommates, she realized she was in bad trouble the night before the final paper was due, and so she dredged up the essay her roommate had written three years ago to such an enthusiastic reception. She handed it in the next morning, but to be on the safe side, she took off the title page, with the little blue whale drawn...
Recently I moved to a new job where the coldness of urban life made me want to run back to the warmth and comfort of home. Then I read your Essay, "Why There Is No Place Like It" [Nov. 29], and decided to stay. The thought of having a home to return to is enough motivation for me to become a success here...
...same time, the oil shock and tighter credit sent the industrialized economies into a recession that sparked industrial production cuts, ballooned unemployment and set off a chorus of calls for protectionism to stem the flow of imports from the Third World (see ESSAY). Demand for the developing nations' products, mainly raw materials, slumped. As a consequence, between 1980 and today, world commodity prices, excluding oil, have fallen by 35% to the lowest real levels in three decades. Sugar, a principal Brazilian export, dropped from $495 to $120 per ton; Zambia's copper price plunged from...