Word: essays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...present, America in 1996 was the answer to every college essay question: it was not what it appeared. Pleased to be living more comfortably than it had in quite a while, it was, under the skin, uncomfortable with its comfort. It was not itself. In spite of the evident prosperity, most people understood there was something rotten in Denmark. Whatever. Along with moderate politics went moderate will, moderate standards of conduct, moderate rage. The country might turn its head away from certain unpleasant, blatant facts, but it knew that it had done nothing about poverty, nothing about persistent racism, nothing...
...serious problem deserves to be treated as such. Barbara Ehrenreich's piece [ESSAY, Dec. 2], suggesting that the U.S. shift to an "all-female military," was full of holes! The individual occurrences of sexual harassment, as awful as they are, do not represent a prevailing trend. I ask you, an all-woman military? Who would protect whom? The women joining an all-female army would probably hate men enough to obliterate them. I do understand that Ehrenreich intended to be amusing, but such fun at the expense of the majority of perfectly good soldiers of all stripes is definitely...
Bryan Lee, a freshman out of Houston, brings his 4.4-speed to his column, which draws its name from a cosmic interaction between his fas unsername (blee) and the Houston Rockets' slogan during their championship years. He wrote his application essay about Jerry Rice and will name his fistborn son after the wide reciever. He bleeds burnt orange...
Lewis said that if the College discovered that an application essay was plagiarized, it would be unlikely that the student would be accepted...
Richardson's account of the origin and initial responses to Les Demoiselles d'Avignon is a masterful combination of narrative and art criticism. He traces Picasso's inspiration back to an 1863 essay by Charles Baudelaire in which the French poet declared, somewhat arbitrarily, that carriages in the Bois de Boulogne and brothels were the two acceptable subjects for the "painter of modern life." The five female figures nakedly displaying themselves in Les Demoiselles are fairly obviously in a brothel, but Picasso, characteristically, was not content simply to do something that others had done before...