Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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McKinnon said that "It was a really difficult essay to write," but was valuable in forcing the applicant to think about what they would most like to do upon graduation from college...
...California-based Guinea Foundation is dedicated to supporting the ideals promoted by the novelist Virginia Wolfe in her essay "Three Guineas." Wolfe writes that society would be bettered by devoting money to women's college building funds and professional training for women in non-traditional careers such...
Question 2: My Expository Writing teacher is clearly an explorer or robotic probe from another solar system. During my last essay conference, he justified my C-plus on a paper about Mark Twain with the fact that, in Armenian, there is no word for "Slurpee." What can I do to escape...
...roomy athletic sock along with a large brick. If your preceptor begins to show signs of his extraterrestrial origin, this sock may be your only means of escape. You should never hit your preceptor with it, unless you wish him to write a very long, nonfiction essay about the experience, to be required reading later in the course. (It would begin "Thunk! The brick felt heavy against my skull.") As soon as you sense danger, hurl the brick in the sock through a nearby window and leap out that window to make your escape. It is always best to wear...
This year's "lighten up" award goes to Barbara Ehrenreich for her column "What a Cute Universe You Have!" [ESSAY, Aug. 25]. In it she slams the Pathfinder team for giving rocks on Mars cute names and Disney for making a cartoon that is funny. Offhand I would say that anyone who can land a robot on Mars deserves to name the rocks whatever he wants. It's O.K. for animated films to be funny. And Ehrenreich's sense of wonder and awe at the mysteries of life must be extremely fragile and shallow if it can be spoiled...