Word: essayistic
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...losing side of so many 99-to-1 or 98-to-2 votes, and none voted more consistently against the Bush Administration, according to the Congressional Quarterly. But Wellstone was not merely obstreperous. Born to Russian-Jewish immigrants, he was encouraged by his father, a frustrated playwright and essayist who spoke 10 languages and worked for the U.S. Information Agency under Edward R. Murrow, to live a life that merged intellectual pursuits with community service. At 19, Wellstone married his high school sweetheart, Sheila Ison, the daughter of Kentucky coal miners, and, after getting his Ph.D. from the University...
...writers." Some French literary types think that may be too many - and that quality is suffering. Publishers, they charge, are so reluctant to miss a potential best-seller that increasing numbers of mediocre writers make it into print, while true talents get lost in the shuffle. Literature professor and essayist Pierre Jourde - whose scathing treatise, Literature Without Guts, won an award from the Académie Française in June - argues that the overproduction is fueled by a cult of personality and by kid-gloved critics who are often shoddy novelists themselves and thus disinclined to attack falling standards...
Award-winning filmmaker, gay rights activist and essayist Nishit Saran ’98 died April 24 in a car accident in New Delhi...
Nishit Saran ’98, an award-winning filmmaker, gay rights activist and essayist in his native India, died last Wednesday after a car accident in New Delhi...
...resourceful and adaptable enough to find work and make it work for him. He acted on TV, playing Sam in the 50s TV series "Casablanca." He wrote scripts for two films: the 1939 musical "Way Down South," a collaboration with Langston Hughes (the only movie work the poet-playwright-essayist did), and, the following year, "Broken Strings," a sweet-tempered indie drama in which Muse starred. An impressive resume. Just as impressive is that he achieved this screen familiarity without bending overmuch to the meanest stereotypes expected of black actors...