Word: essayist
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...Cute, Quaint, Hungry and Romantic: The Aesthetics of Consumerism, essayist Daniel Harris wrote about the tendency for "cute" to veer into a fetishization of helplessness or even the grotesque. Writing about a line of dolls from the toy company Galoob, Harris observed that most cute dolls, were they to exist in real life, would not be adorable at all, but in fact deformed and helpless, unable to walk on their stumpy, swollen legs, cursed with useless, fat fingers and with heads too large to be held up by a weak infant's neck. Science has borne out that such helplessness...
...Back to Basics Re "The New India, and the Old One" [March 13]: I concur with essayist Alex Perry that India's progress is staggering in its magnitude and its one-dimensional quality. In evolving into a nuclear power worthy of American attention, India has become somehow detached from the person in the street. In day-to-day India-with an entrenched, corrupt bureaucracy, only an intermittent supply of clean water and millions of people lacking basic health care and sanitation-the new international developments seem impossibly far removed. India requires first the basics of life and then transparency...
...which Islamic terrorism has training camps and madrasahs, where the young are brainwashed into a culture of blind hate. Iraq was, tragically, the wrong place to go to war. Rita Putatunda Pune, India Back to Basics Re "The new India, and the old one" [March 13]: I concur with essayist Alex Perry, that India's progress is staggering in its magnitude and its one-dimensional quality. In evolving into a nuclear power worthy of American attention, India has become somehow detached from the person in the street. In the day-to-day India - with an entrenched, corrupt bureaucracy, only...
Back in Harvard Yard, in the rarefied confines of Harvard’s Houghton Collection, resides “Des destinées de l’ame...,” a collection of essays meditating on the human spirit by Arsène Houssaye, a French poet and essayist...
...WERE YOUR BIG COMIC INFLUENCES? My biggest by far?besides my mother, who had an incredibly dark sense of humor?was Robert Benchley, a humor essayist. I always wanted to write like him. He was silly, and that appealed to me, that a grownup could be that silly and get away with...