Word: essaying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, Baldwin's ideal did not come without its own price. The price for his newfound humanity was his friendship with his boyhood idol, Richard Wright. Perhaps the most heartbreaking essay of the lot is "Alas, Poor Richard," the chronicle of their split. In it, Baldwin describes Wright's anger over a perceived insult and gives his hero's feelings full credit. Baldwin acknowledges his own insensitivity in using Wright as a "springboard" for his own ideas, but he refuses to let his culpability shake loose his convictions. He concludes: "The war in the breast between blackness and whiteness, which...
...This essay was written on the author's roommate's MacIntosh...
...first issue cover topics ranging from terrorism to the paralyzing effect Congress has on the President's ability to forge foreign policy. Jeane Kirkpatrick, who serves on the journal's advisory board, contributes a speech arguing the morality of U.S. aid to anti-Communist rebels. In an essay, Kristol says that support is growing in the U.S. for a muscular foreign policy grounded in the belief that the conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union is not one of clashing national interests, as some liberals say, but of ideologies. Kristol predicts that the U.S. will be quicker...
...cheerful front to get to the madness and guilt underneath was terrifying." Robards got the part, the production established both him and Quintero as major forces in the theater, and they began a collaboration that led Quintero to direct most of O'Neill's major plays and Robards to essay most of his greatest characters. Both men came to be haunted by O'Neill's melancholy, his Celtic love of self- ruin. Now, 28 years later, they have revived the production for Broadway...
...Education, Music, Religion and Science, still appear under their original headings. These sections have been joined by several successful newcomers. Modern Living, now called Living, began looking at American mores and manners in 1961. Law, which had appeared occasionally in the 1920s and '30s, became a fixture in 1963. Essay made its debut in 1965. Behavior and Environment got their start in 1969, and Sexes in 1973. Since 1978 American Scene has examined numerous intriguing corners of American life. Some other new departments: Video (1981), Design (1981), Computers (1982) and Food...