Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This essay was originally submitted for General Education 105. "The Literature of Social Reflection...
...collection reveals Rooney's reliance upon certain themes that soon lose their freshness. "I've got to throw out some clothes," one essay begins, and throughout the book. Rooney's sartorial habits receive much attention. "Seek and thou shall find," he writes adding later. "Not in the bottom drawer of my dresser you won't find." Other essays describe his "unmatched socks," "seventeen shirts," and "worn shoelaces," "Hangers" include this piece of advice...
Rooney writes movingly as well. His simply entitled "Mother" begins. "My mother died today. "Like others collected in the book, this essay includes carefully selected and seemingly unimportant details. "She was girl's high jump champion of Ballston spa in 1902". But his observations and attention to the unobserved further, rather than muddle, his conclusion. "There is no time for each of us to sweep for the hole world," he writes. "We each sweep...
...that Americans do millions of times every day-had become fraught with menace. Suddenly one of the small bonds of unconscious trust that hold society together had snapped: people could not look at the ubiquitous bottles of pills on their medicine shelves in quite the same way again (see ESSAY...
...agree with your Essay [Sept. 20] that Israel cannot dwell forever on the Holocaust and use that tragedy as its motivating force. However, the Israelis would do well to keep attuned to the guns and bombs going off at synagogues in Paris, Brussels and Vienna...