Word: essays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Holt's views and insights. Today's school system does more to suppress learning than to promote it. I am an honors student, but in these past twelve years I have learned neither history, science, French, nor English. Instead, I have learned how to fake an essay, how to cram, how to impress teachers, and how to comb my hair so that it will not appear to be in violation of the administration's dress code. The result is that upon leaving school one has the feeling that he never wants to "learn" another thing as long...
NEARLY every TIME story, whatever its length, involves intensive research and reporting on all of its possible aspects. Among all our sections, Essay probably ranks as the one that, week after week, places the most demanding load on our researchers and correspondents. The basic reason is that its approach is so broad and deep. To provide writer and editor with food for thought and analysis, it must explore many areas of a subject that may never be mentioned on the printed page. Perhaps the most consistent sources for Essay are academics, particularly sociologists and psychologists, and we are deeply indebted...
...this week's Essay on the single life, our staff worked principally in New York, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Houston, Seattle and San Francisco. While Researcher Lu Anne Aulepp (single) and Writer Stefan Kanfer (married, two children) began their task in New York by digging into the existing lore on the singles, the work in the field was assigned largely to reporters with a special qualification: singleness...
...enjoyed reading your Essay [Aug. 18], "Corruption in Asia." Made me aware of the graft and corruption where I came from, the Philippines. Quite embarrassing to admit and accept the corruption in our government, but it's true. Nepotism in the Philippines is rampant. Compadre system is a way of life...
Viscount Norwich, whose first essay into history was inspired by a holiday visit to Sicily six years ago, has retold the story of the Normans' little-remembered adventure there with infectious enthusiasm and commendable skill. It is difficult not to be swept up in the momentum of those violent times-and not to look forward impatiently to the next installment of the story, in which Norwich aims to tell how "the cultural genius that was Norman Sicily's chief legacy to the world bursts at last into the fullness of its flower...