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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would expect from a newspaper, however, articles which are more firmly grounded in proper English written style. Not once in the entire article could I find a paragraph with more than two complete sentences, As a result, the column read more like a barrage of accusations rather than an essay or informative article...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Griffel Lambastes Crowds Unfairly | 10/17/1994 | See Source »

MUSIC Composer Anthony Davis comes from a talented family: his brother Christopher is a gifted actor and his cousin Thulani an accomplished poet. Davis recalls that at Yale he encountered an essay by Nietzsche extolling opera as a reflection of a people's cultural identity. "I thought that a truly American opera would be based on African-American music," says Davis. That is precisely what he accomplished in his powerful and biting 1984 work X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X (with libretto by cousin Thulani), a fierce, modernist, free-tonal piece that employs elements of jazz, blues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Beauty of Black Art | 10/10/1994 | See Source »

...ESSAY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazine Contents Page | 10/10/1994 | See Source »

...They spend their college careers learning how to make convincing arguments about why "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder," or "Fashion is the bane of existence." Compared to these BIRT (that's "be it resolved that") statements, or rezes (that's resolutions), your simplistic "Why my essay was late" or "I didn't know I was plagiarizing" are child's play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ATTACK OF THE ORATORS | 10/8/1994 | See Source »

...ESSAY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazine Contents Page | 10/3/1994 | See Source »

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