Word: essayist
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...time, thought his watercolors were "crude blotches" and his oils a "gross outrage." They also routinely called him insane (which hurt--his mother had died in Bedlam, the London asylum). Their complaints boiled down to the same thing. Turner made light tangible but things illegible. Or, as the essayist William Hazlitt put it in a still famous wisecrack, he made "pictures of nothing, and very like...
...wrenchingly quirky as Roberto Benigni’s film “Life is Beautiful.” Yet Diane Ackerman’s new book doesn’t fit into any single genre. Rather, Ackerman—poet, author of various nonfiction books on nature, and an essayist whose work has appeared in National Geographic—has combined all her talents to create a chaotic cornucopia of primary documents, creative narration, lyrical prose, and journalism. The book is told chiefly from the perspective of Antonina Zabinski, who, with her husband Jan, served as the keeper...
...kinds of things that a small-town actor without a university education would be familiar with. As the Declaration says, "scholars know nothing about how he acquired the breadth and depth of knowledge displayed in the works." And so doubting scholars look to well-traveled writers and aristocrats - essayist Francis Bacon; poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe; theater patron Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford - as the more likely candidates...
...think a student that wins is going to have their profile raised if they want to be a journalist, an essayist, a writer,” Friedman said. “Whether they want to be a columnist one day like a Kristof or a Friedman—they have an opportunity to try it out on a large scale nationally,” he said, referring to prominent Times columnists Nicholas D. Kristof ’82 and Thomas L. Friedman, respectively...
Critic and essayist William L. Safire, writing for The “New York Times” in the wake of the books’ first wave of popularity, praised the first three “Harry Potter” books for “captivat[ing] a world of kids.” As for their literary value, Safire was far less optimistic...