Word: essayist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...group of Latin American writers who have profoundly influenced the policies of their nations, Paz is a poet, essayist, diplomat, critic and professor. Sixteen years in Mexico's diplomatic service gave the 66-year-old Paz the chance he needed to begin writing. Today, as countryman and novelist Carlos Fuentes has labelled him, Paz is "the greatest living Mexican writer, a great renovator of the Spanish language, a great universal poet and essayist...
Octavio Paz, poet, essayist--Doctor of Letters...
...Slavic Languages and Literatures Department not only invited, but listed in the course catalogue as an associate professor Stanislaw Baranczak, a 33-year-old poet, essayist and literary critic from Poznan, Poland. Baranczak was to begin a three-year term here July 1, 1978, but the Polish government has steadfastly refused to let him go, despite continued protests by Harvard officials--including several letters to Polish authorities from President Bok--and the State Department...
Such palpable hits reveal exhaustive learning. But unlike many essayist-reviewers, Pritchett never preens. His erudition is like old money, reassuringly there but tastefully in the background. His impulse is always to understand rather than attack; he often acknowledges the criticism of others so that he can temper it. He calls Edmund Wilson's plain, sometimes blunt style "democratic, in the sense that this distinguished man will not for long allow one phrase to be better than another." Evelyn Waugh is similarly pardoned: "To object to his snobbery is as futile as objecting to cricket, for every summer...
...limiting the power of the state. While some capitalist countries are not democracies, no Communist or totally socialist economy has remained a democracy for long. And every democracy practices some version of capitalism. The reason is clear: political freedom is impossible without economic freedom. As the British poet and essayist Hilaire Belloc noted, "The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself...