Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reluctant to give up on America's war in Vietnam, but after one trip to Saigon, reported back to his colleagues in New York that the best result one could reasonably expect was a standoff with North Vietnam. He takes responsibility, however, for writing, above a TIME essay defending the war, this headline: THE RIGHT WAR AT THE RIGHT TIME...
Would Barbara Ehrenreich's satirical commentary about a toy company and child labor [ESSAY, Dec. 23] have a happier ending if multinational firms fired their child workers? Has Ehrenreich considered that the children are working not because they are forced to but for some other reason? In developing countries today, child income is necessary for a family's survival, as it was in the U.S. in the past. For my part, I find child labor a lesser evil than child starvation. ROBERT S. CARR Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan...
...check the operation of a vague generality under fire, take the typical example, "Hume brought empiricism to its logical extreme." The question is asked, "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?" Our hero replies by opening his essay with "David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If these be the spirit of the age in which he lived, then he was representative of it." This generality expert has already taken his position for the essay. Actually he has not the vaguest idea of what Hume really...
Just exactly what our equivocator's answer has to do with the original question is hard to say. The equivocator writes an essay about the point, but never...
Consequently, the grader often mentally assumes that the right answer is known by the equivocator and marks the essay as an extension of the point rather than a complete irrelevance...