Word: essayed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
What I encountered in the first essay, "The Pursuit of the Ideal," was a magical world of thought that seemed to me wonderful but overly complex. After all, I had not even heard of Kant, much less been able to name-drop The Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals in section. Yet despite all the references to Herder, Plato, Machiavelli and Voltaire, I detected some resonance in this history of ideas. What "a priori" meant I did not know, but the basic themes I understood. Berlin was saying that theories were wonderful stuff, great to think about and even more...
...danger of becoming only as important as that optional essay on college applications that most of us chose not to write. The University of California, which includes nine campuses and enrolls 166,000 students, is considering dropping the SAT as a pre-requisite for admission in response to the state's recent ban on affirmative action. A task force commissioned by the university has projected that continuing to use the SAT could cause Hispanic and black enrollment at its schools to fall by as much as 70 percent when the ban takes effect on next year's undergraduate first-year...
...invitation to the symposium, Abrams wrote an essay on how companies could use an electronic signature on mass-produced items. He attended various lectures and workshops during his stay...
Hopps compares him in a catalog essay to Charles Willson Peale, the artist of the Revolutionary War period who created the first American museum, a highly personal wunderkammer of his own portraits of American heroes mixed with natural-history specimens. When you think of Rauschenberg giving new life to a stuffed angora goat in Monogram, 1955, or repeatedly silk-screening the effigy of John F. Kennedy, there's some truth to this. But his closer affinity is with an equally polymorphous ancestor, Walt Whitman, the entranced celebrant of American variety...
...absolutely agree with Charles Krauthammer's "The New Prohibitionism" [ESSAY, Oct. 6], which points out that the frenzied crusade against tobacco has allowed alcohol to get a free ride. Why do we accept the spread of alcoholism without trying to campaign against it? The fact that "alcohol is far more deadly than tobacco to innocent bystanders" should move politicians, the medical community and all others concerned to take action. DONALD J. DEFRAIN Santee, Calif...