Word: essayed
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...recent portrait of Lee Harvey Oswald, Norman Mailer quotes Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay "On Heroism," in an attempt to understand the mind of the killer. "[Heroism's] jest is the littleness of common life. Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good," Emerson wrote. "Now to no other man can wisdom appear as it does...
...fact, by asserting that African-American approval ratings of Powell should exceed that of whites, Star is arguing in favor of the same sort of group think he condemns throughout his essay. Perhaps Star is a victim of the racism he condemns as much as he is of his own ignorance. --Abin B. Tillery, Jr. Ph.D. Candidate in Government
...better equipped to share in self-government. Their contention is that confining politics solely to the economic distribution debate between libertarians and egalitarians is no longer appropriate. The new "statescraft as soulcraft" (to use Will's term) may well be inevitable, and it is not the purpose of this essay to debate the pros and cons of such a return to formative politics (it's taking a whole term to even frame the debate in Government 1091 and would be impossible here). The real question is whose morality will be instilled into us, should such a moral revolution come...
Republicans grumbled that Dole can hardly dub Clinton an invertebrate while he himself wiggles between principles. In a Wall Street Journal essay, Gingrich booster and political augurist Arianna Huffington called Clinton a "counterfeit" and Dole a "composite--a collage of positions determined by polling data and focus groups," and predicted that in a matchup, the counterfeit would win. The idea of that choice helps explain why voters tired of gamey party politics ache for the only candidate who has yet to say whether he belongs to a party...
...title suggests, The F-Word, compiled by Jesse Sheidlower, a reference-book editor at Random House, and prefaced with a playful essay by humor writer Roy Blount Jr., is a more or less scholarly lexicon devoted solely to all the unimaginable variations and permutations of what is surely the most often used sexual term in the English language. So "linguistically important" is it, says Sheidlower, "that its serious documentation is not only appropriate but also required...