Word: essaying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sport Magazine recently asked Stephen J. Gould, professor of biology and zoology, to write an essay about the Mick for its 40th anniversary edition...
Person Two: "Well O.K., but I have a lot of work to do. See, I have this ten thousand page essay due tomorrow and I haven't started. Well...
...help in such deliberations as interested faculties may undertake, I offer this brief essay, concentrating on the issues that arise when scholars are required to submit their manuscripts to outside review prior to publication and when they must decide whether to disclose the sources of funding for their research. Later this year, I may prepare another letter on problems of secrecy and other restrictions that can arise in carrying out scientific research sponsored by industry. My purpose in writing these essays is not to propose definitive answers but to provoke and assist discussion. Through such deliberation, we may ultimately arrive...
...repeat that I disclose these tentative opinions to provoke faculty discussion, not to inhibit it. What emerges from this essay is that our current rules relating to secrecy in research do not seem either adequately framed or sufficiently understood within this community to deal satisfactorily with the kinds of issues we have been discussing. By themselves, of course, the situations we have analyzed may seem minor. Probably, only a few faculty members will ever encounter such problems in their own work. Still, the principles at stake are important to a community of scholars, and the kinds of questions we have...
...essay, "On a book entitled Lolita," Nabokov explains how the novel represents "my love affair...with the English language." Having left off writing in his mother tongue, Nabokov, speaking through Humbert, toys with the American idiom, pinpoints his images with le mot juste...