Word: essays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...magazine is an ingenious conglomeration--from the the heavy stylization of Edgar de Bresson's "A Chapter From A Novel," a stylization which seems remarkably successful in its design to obscure the fact that he has nothing to say, to a condescending essay on the local literary scene by Lowell Edmunds, who apparently has no conspicuous desire to report accurately. And there is "A Preposition," by Kurt Blankmeyer, chiefly distinguished by its first sentence, 596 words long, and also by its incomprehensibility...
...plan currently under consideration would set up a compulsory senior tutorial on a cross-departmental basis and would allow non-Honors Seniors the option of writing a long essay and taking a general examination to regain Honors standing. Perkins described the plan as "providing a more respectable cum laude than the one in General Studies...
...escaped, joined the partisans. Today, in her bustling office in the palace, which because of its busyness she calls Le Moulin (the mill), she handles a bewildering assortment of visitors and letters asking every sort of favor, from help in curbing an abusive husband to advice on a Latin essay. She manages the presidential palaces and mansions, but in spite of her connections ran for the National Assembly as an Independent. "I am very independent," she explains. "It isn't that I disagree with the majority party, but I might in the future...
...Speech Therapy. When Marclan was three, she was not expected to live. Somehow she clung to life until it was time to go to school, and ever since she has been determined to keep up with her peers. As a high-school senior she won an American Legion essay contest. The prize: a scholarship at Marshall. There (she will be a senior next month) she is taking eleven credit hours, five of them in speech, and plans to become a speech therapist. An average of six times a year she has to go to St. Mary's Hospital...
...advertisers in the anniversary issue had to pay for their ads. Dozens of bylined articles were donated to the cause by literate or semiliterate types from all the stages of show business. Determined readers could dip into an essay on sin in the cinema by a translator of foreign subtitles named Herman Weinberg ("Surely, it is not sophistication to revel in bosoms and behinds"). They could sample Playwright William Saroyan at his most incomprehensible ("Squawking is futile unless it's something else at the same time, such as art, which is also futile unless it is something else...