Word: essayist
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...Good Night and Good Luck Essayist Pamela Paul discussed the ongoing debate over the best way to get a baby to sleep [Nov. 28]. My wife and I resorted to Dr. Richard Ferber's "cry it out" technique with our first son so that we could get some well-deserved shut-eye. Our boy was gifted with an operatic set of lungs. On the second or third night, we were watching the clock and gnashing our teeth at our baby's megadecibel wails. Finally we dashed into his room to comfort him and found that one of his legs...
...Essayist Pamela Paul discussed the ongoing debate over the best way to get a baby to sleep [Nov. 28]. My wife and I resorted to Dr. Richard Ferber's "cry it out" technique with our first son so that we could get some well-deserved shut-eye. Our boy was gifted with an operatic set of lungs. On the second or third night, we were watching the clock and gnashing our teeth at our baby's megadecibel wails. Finally we dashed into his room to comfort him and found that one of his legs had become trapped at a painful...
...only reader bewildered by essayist Michelle Cottle's "My Roving Barcalounger" [Aug. 1], in which she complains about all the distractions in her new minivan? No one made her get a car with bells and whistles like a DVD player, a satellite radio, a five-CD changer and three cell-phone outlets. Whether, deep down, Cottle wanted all those gadgets or just gave into the snob appeal of the fanciest model, she has only herself to blame for filling her vehicle with so many distractions...
Writer Helaine Olen, in a New York Times article on July 17, caused a Web-wide stir when she described firing her nanny Tessy for blogging about the family. The Web consensus? Olen was wrong to sack the nanny--ATRIOS dubbed the essayist "wanker of the week"--and downright depraved for airing her dirty laundry in the pages of the Gray Lady. Opinion was divided on whether Tessy made a mistake by confessing the blogging to her employer. The nanny fired back with a 3,200-word rebuttal on her site, INSTRUCTIONS TO THE DOUBLE, then announced that she would...
...comic essayist never did produce the serious work he wanted to, and he wasted too much time in Hollywood, playing small parts in smaller movies. But seated on the aisle during the '20s and '30s, as drama critic of Life, the humor magazine, and later The New Yorker, Robert Benchley was in his essential elements of earth, air and firewater. The boozy, bemused uncle of the theater sees a parade of greats. He applauds Jimmy Durante, discovers Bob Hope and Groucho Marx, and collects parodies of a Cole Porter lyric: "Night and day under the bark of me/ There...