Word: essays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reasons he suggests--that the assumption is so cosmic that it might be accepted. It is rarely "accepted;" we aren't here to accept or reject--we're here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we all like to be called "assistant," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your bluebook, he can only...
Ironically, she was doing a pictorial essay on love when she encountered a terrifying scene. "I was living with a wealthy Westchester couple, and one night I was awakened by noise," recalls Ferrato. "I grabbed my camera and ran down the hall to find them arguing in their bathroom." As she snapped off a picture, the husband struck his wife. When Ferrato grabbed his arm, he shook her off. " 'She's my wife,' he said, 'and I'm going to teach her a lesson.' He wasn't concerned that I was there. That's true of a lot of these...
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