Word: essaying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Your essay constitutes a veiled and unjustified attack on library staff and is likely to do so much damage to their effectiveness in dealing with library users that it cannot be ignored. "Libraries" don't drag their feet and "libraries" don't shuffle papers; only sentient beings can be described that way, and your form of innuendo effectively suggests that once again it's those dullards behind the desk who are standing between the students and the books. I solemnly reject that implication, because I can testify to the intelligence and integrity of the people who make the best they...
...present. In The Maul and the Pear Tree, James applies her narrative and analytic talents to the actual: the Ratcliffe Highway murders that took place in early-l9th century London. Although the seven killings in two merchant households were widely publicized and later inspired Thomas De Quincey's essay "On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts," James and her collaborator, Police Historian T.A. Critchley, found that few researchers had scrutinized contemporary accounts and public records. Their own examination unearthed appalling evidence of police ineptitude: "As the story developed it became clear that the system of 1811 had done...
More than 750 applicants for the 100 spots submitted a resume, a short essay, and three recommendations from faculty members...
...that was closer in spirit to their conferences--in which well-known policy-makers would hold forth in print. They never appreciated that the primary function of the Review, at least in our eyes, was to provide undergraduates with a place where they could learn how to write an essay, to edit, to solicit subscriptions: where students could experience working on a political magazine. The institute, I believe, wants to transform the Review from a forum for student writing into a press for bureaucrats and professors...
...essay criticizes American feminism's white, middle-class complexion, "Do you then blame us for being careful in following the white woman's footsteps?" Her historically-based critique points out that minority women are often held in a status of double- and even triple-faceted oppression that prioritizes issues of race and economic class over those of gender. She challenges the assumption that mainstream women's groups speak for or even recognize the plural demands presented by minority women's groups...