Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...generation gap yawns as wide as ever. Twentysomethings can paint a scathing portrait of their elders. "I think I was conceived on an acid trip," muses one Xer in the film Reality Bites. Another asks, "How can we repair all the damage we inherited?" Novelist Coupland, in a memorable essay in 1995, accused boomers, "pummeled by the recession and embarrassed by their own compromised '60s values," of "transferring their collective darkness onto the group threatening to take their spotlight." Indeed, pollsters find that boomers are markedly more pessimistic than Xers. Fully 71% of boomers say, "If I had the chance...
Even the most cynical historians are beginning to suspect that the peaceful run we've enjoyed may be a persistent blessing, not just a passing respite from carnage. In an essay last year, then Secretary of Defense William Perry argued for "defense in an age of hope"--a military policy based on the idea that peace is sustainable, perhaps less reliable than the sun but more constant than the weather. Around the world the ineluctable algebra of economic and political liberalization (less war = more money) is catching on. At the start of 1997, none of the planet's 179 nations...
...guide also tells preceptors how to approach assignments and how to phrase essay questions so that students know what is expected of them, defining a clear administrative and academic structure for Expos which every preceptor is expected to follow...
Before I even arrived at Harvard for my first year, I completed one of my first intellectual requirements at the College: reading Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay "Self-Reliance," which had been mailed to all first-years during the summer. In this famous text, Emerson addresses the value of independent thought and asserts that the propensity to confront authority and orthodoxy was one of the hallmarks of a great intellect. He writes: "I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions... I ought to go upright and vital, and speak...
...says he was down-graded to cum with summa ratings in everything else because he wrote a protest essay instead of answering the questions in his generals...