Word: essays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Village Voice executive editor Richard Goldstein put Croce "under the aegis of the Great Newt, [where] a traditionalist may safely rage against the rise of minorities." Conservative art critic Hilton Kramer saw things differently, calling the piece "the most definitive essay on the arts in the 1990s that any American critic has yet written ... a landmark in the cultural history...
Croce, of course, insists that her essay was occasioned only by the Still/Here tour, but both she and Jones are conscious of political influences at work in the controversy. "This is really a little scuffle," Jones told Time, "but I wonder about the winds blowing around in the country-whether there isn't a plan of retrenchment we can't even see." As for Croce, she was disgusted that "some of the angriest responses have come from people who think the Republican victory emboldened me to write this. I have been thinking about Bill T. Jones for years...
...emphasis wasn't on getting drilled and doing problems," Jan says. "We would do essay-type answers even in math...
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Just exactly what our equivocator's answer has to do with the original question is hard to say. The equivocator writes an essay about the point, but never on it. Consequently, the grader often mentally assumes that the right answer is known by the equivocator and marks the essay as an extension of the point rather than a complete irrelevance. The artful equivocation must imply the writer knows the right answer, but it must never get definite enough to eliminate any possibilities...