Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...memoirs meant to expand our understanding of female experience. She introduces the material by explaining that she first felt guilty about putting together such an introspective, apolitical book. But, Walker says, she resisted the pressure "to make a book I really wasn't all that desperate to read." An essay by Veena Cabreros-Sud tells us how empowering it can be to have random fistfights with strangers. And there's the interview with model Veronica Webb titled "How Does a Supermodel Do Feminism?," in which she explains that while the fashion industry may make women feel inadequate, there...
...class the narrator's teacher praises a simple yet effecting essay written by a country boy, while the citified narrator is chagrined by thoughts of his own, which "had been full of long or strange words [he] had found in the dictionary." Although Deane himself uses a sufficient number of twentyfive-cent words to be considered a "literary" author, for whatever that's worth, his style is as down-to-earth as any country boy's. His lovely prose reads effortlessly. Another writer would drown such a tenuous, fragile plot with the dense description Deane favors, but Deane makes observations...
...already be happening. More than half of Asian Americans under 34 marry outside their race (Liu is among them), and as he notes in the book's concluding essay, the boom in interracial marriage offers some fresh promise for America's agonized debate on race. Writes Liu: "Something new is emerging from the torrent." This book makes one hope Liu will be there to chronicle...
GRAVY AT THE GRAVE To attract visitors, the Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio, is holding an essay contest, the winner of which will enjoy a romantic evening by the monument to slain President James Garfield, near where he and his wife are buried. The evening will be highlighted by a seven-course dinner. Entrants had to explain why they wanted to win. Most just seemed eager for a night...
...graduate fellowship was threatened, and he was pressed to identify members of the Communist Party, even though Bellah had left the Party by his graduate school days, according to an essay he wrote in Beyond Belief...