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...Essayist Lance Morrow, who has long been in the pages of TIME and now writes a Web column Monday and Thursday. TIME.com What's the difference between writing for print and the Web? Morrow: Spontaneity. The freedom to respond so fast to the news. --See time.com/morrow...
...future poet and essayist only took second place in the competition, perhaps indicative of the high standards students were once held to for elocution...
...this gem, the scientist and noted essayist trains a wry wit and a highly perceptive eye on his two-plus decades of observing baboon behavior in Kenya. Sidesplitting vignettes about monkey politics alternate with equally hilarious tales of misadventure on the backroads of East and Central Africa. Sciencephobes needn't be worried: there's nary a page of neuroendocrinology in the book. A supporting cast of tribal misfits, postcolonial weirdos and marginally psychotic truck drivers will keep you chuckling from start to finish...
...essayist Edward Hoagland, in a splendid piece called "Dogs and the Tug of Life," mentions that the dog's sense of smell is at least a hundred times as keen as a man's. He goes on to become somewhat personal: "The way in which a dog presents his anus and genitals for inspection indicates the hierarchical position that he aspires to, and other dogs who sniff his genitals are apprised of his sexual condition. From his urine they can undoubtedly distinguish age, build, state of sexual activity and general health, even hours after he's passed...
Prominent essayist Stanley Crouch said Burns had not sufficiently emphasized the role of race in jazz history...