Word: essayist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Democracy," essayist John Simon writes, "encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant." Nowhere is that more true than in America. How many of that exalted species, the American voter, can coherently explain the difference between the federal deficit and the national debt? How many can formulate a cogent account of why living standards are stagnating...
...trends for African-American culture. They're not set by Blacks because they don't have the power. They got upset with me when I walked out of the establishment and set up my own establishment. I set up institutions, I set up publishing. I founded PEN Oakland--Poets, Essayist and Novelists--an international organization because I got tired of these country club PENs in LA and New York. We are an activist PEN. We've led two media boycotts because we believe the diversity movement has to challenge the media now. There's a lot of poison in everyday...
Luis Rafael-Sanchez, a prominent Puerto Rican essayist and novelist, has been invited by the Department of Romance Languages and Literature, and Xiao-huang Yin, a specialist in Chinese-American history, will teach in the History Department...
...journalist and essayist for the PBS MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour, Rodriguez knows that Americans grasp their history lightly if at all. In a multiethnic society, it's a cultural disorder that has had its advantages. Historical amnesia has been useful to the 12-step process of national amalgamation. Forget just a bit who you were, and it was easier to become someone else -- an American...
...wrote and directed his first play in the ninth grade, and since then he has seldom strayed from the footlights: as a 26-year-old lawyer arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court; as a popular lecturer in political economy at Harvard; as a best-selling and prolific author and essayist, television commentator and corporate consultant. Built like a jockey (4 ft. 10 in. and wiry) and bursting with humor and energy, Reich could always attract and hold an audience, even when playing honky-tonk piano for friends on weekends. And for the past 24 years, he has won some...