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...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 “assistants,” not “graders”—you may be able to ferret...
...discussion of the various methods whereby the crafty student attempts to show the grader that he knows a lot more than he actually does, the vague generality is the key device. A generality is a vague statement that means nothing by itself, but when placed in an essay on a specific subject very well might mean something to the grader. The true master of a generality is the man who can write a 10-page essay, which means nothing at all to him, and have it mean a great deal to anyone who reads it. The generality writer banks...
...moment that Henry Luce, TIME's co-founder, wrote his great essay "The American Century," the world was looking very dark. It was 1941, before the U.S. entered World War II, and Luce was trying to inspire Americans with the resolve and confidence to take up the great battles of the day. Luce was passionate about America's role in the world and about the American ideals of freedom and equal opportunity, but he was also passionate about the hopes and dreams of another great nation--China. The son of missionaries in China, Luce came to school in America...
...years later, after the war of June 1967 during which Israel drove Jordanian forces out of the West Bank, Kollek found himself running a reunified (and therefore sharply divided) city that included some of the holiest sites of the three Abrahamic religions. In a December 1971 essay on the building of a new Jerusalem, TIME wrote...
...Defending a Tyrant •A Slain Saddam Trial Lawyer's Final Interview •Inside Saddam's Defense Strategy •Rights Groups Concerned Over Saddam Trial •Notebook: Rushing To His Defense •The Semiotics of Saddam •Saddam's Capture •'Ladies and Gentlemen — We Got Him!' Photo Essay • Captured At Last