Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that I was kicking around the back of my mind while writing my thesis. From time to time I would feel the need to read ethical teachings about scholarship. I looked up what the rabbis said about learning Torah. I read Ruskin on reading. I read Samuel Johnson's essay "On Scholarship." I found these to be real pick-me-ups, my version of chugging espressos and popping Vivarin. The whole thesis process tends to be "meta" as it is, focusing as much attention on the experience of research and writing as on the actual subject of the project...
Loyalty. It's something we all know a good deal about, even if we don't always realize its complexity. We are loyal to family, old friends, roommates and blockmates, our school, even to our baseball team. Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s essay, "The End of Loyalty" which appeared in the March 9 issue of The New Yorker laid out a current philosophical debate: where does loyalty come from, and do we care about its (apparent) demise...
...strange feeling would go away with a good night's sleep, I was disappointed to discover it is still with me. I began to worry and suspect Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI). A friend told me to go to the doctor. I sucked it up and finished a short application essay...
...asked by a parent. She wanted to know, much to the visible disappointment of her daughter, how important SAT scores are in the admissions process. "Well" said Julie, "SATs are certainly important, but don't worry about them too much." The mother then asked "Can we see your admissions essay? I bet it was incredible." (The daughter thinks "You wonder why I'm going out of state for college...
...emotional pull, at times both mournful and celebratory. Performing them all in one evening, as Ma has on occasion, and will again this month in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, is a feat of endurance--marathon and obstacle course in one. These are pieces that Rostropovich did not essay on record until he was in his 60s. Ma first recorded them when he was just 26. It is music entwined with his life: he first encountered them at four, when his father, a violinist and a pedagogue, introduced him to the cello by having him memorize passages from...