Word: essayist
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DIED. GUSTAW HERLING, 81, Polish essayist and dissident whose 1953 book, A World Apart, captured in harrowing if dispassionate detail the horrors of his experience in the Soviet gulag; in Naples, Italy...
Biographer and essayist Justin Kaplan, who is a long-time associate of Haviaras, said that Houghton needs to respect the poetry room as more than a book nook...
...anger desirable or undesirable? Is anger a hateful and disfiguring manifestation? Or is it an effective, animating instrument? The English essayist Thomas Fuller composed a lovely sermonette on anger in 1642. "Anger is one of the sinews of the soul," Fuller wrote. "He that wants it hath a maimed mind... nor is it good to converse with such as cannot be angry, and with the Caspian Sea never ebb and flow." But Fuller set up sensible rules, such as this: "Take heed of doing irrevocable acts in thy passion... Samson's hair grew again, but not his eyes." He acknowledged...
Before embarking on her career as an essayist and novelist, she studied in Paris and lectured in philosophy and religion at various New York universities...
...year-old murdering a classmate, he says, stems from an article he wrote for TIME in 1982 that later became a book, Children of War, a story of children in war zones around the world, which won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Prize. Rosenblatt, a regular essayist on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, says he was caught up in this story "not only because of the horrific situation of a child killing another child but also because the larger context of the story seems to connect to so many other problems in the country." The prolific Rosenblatt wrote this week...