Word: essayistic
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...character of considerable authenticity. Most likely this is because he contains so many of Snow's own convictions and so much of Snow's concern for the future of the race. Montaigne once said, "I am myself the subject of my works," and for an essayist that was enough. It is not enough for a novelist. In The Sleep of Reason, Eliot seems motivated largely by Snow's need to have him in a particular place at a particular moment in order to function as a fictional forward observer. It is an excessively willful way to construct...
...presidential race recalls to memory the words of Essayist William Hazlitt: "Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be." I weep...
...show. Paintings, busts, daguerreotypes, cartoons, and even occasional photographs are arranged in rooms that were liberally draped with flags and bunting for opening week. Each room is meant to illustrate a national trait; together, the exhibits are intended to answer the question posed by the French-born essayist Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur near the beginning of his 1782 Letters from an American Farmer: "What then is the American, this...
...fiction. He is book editor of Commonweal, film critic for Esquire, and a freelance reviewer for at least half a dozen other publications. He undertakes this extra work partly for the money, but he also thoroughly enjoys it. "Criticism," he says, "is the last refuge of the light essayist." In Sheed's case, it may be a refuge, but it will hardly be the last...
Buenos Aires reporters clustered around the visiting literary lion and his hostess. How did Graham Greene find the food in Argentina? "I like to drink more than I like to eat," he smiled. "That is a joke," interrupted Victoria Ocampo, noted essayist and editor, "because he has come to a house where the hostess does not touch a drop of alcohol." No kidding, continued Greene, he found the Argentine whisky he was served "interesting but not very good." Er, and politics? "I am a great admirer of Fidel Castro," said Greene, after which Miss Ocampo allowed...