Word: essay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Honors requirements are a bit stiffer, and a general final examination is required. On the credit side is the fact that the honors essay is limited to 10,000 words in length...
Club officials promptly shifted the meeting to the Seelbach Hotel. There, with a happy smile on her face, 13-year-old Betty Foster accepted her prize for a winning entry in the club's essay contest on "Why I Love America...
...peach." These Thomson similes make a succinct description of his own writing. "Music Right and Left" is the third collection of his reviews, covering from 1947 through half of 1950, and ranging in content from Bach to Pravda. Each review is a slick, colorful, brightly polished little essay; the polish is all the more remarkable since each review was written in about an hour...
Taken together, Malraux's three volumes constitute a rambling, rapt, repetitive essay touching on almost every known period and style of art from Celtic coins to Wei Buddhas. Slushy and bone-clean by turns, it abounds in brilliant insights, bends them to the service of a single theme: the all-inclusiveness of the 20th Century's art heritage and the importance of using it well...
...this new study of Dreiser, which was finished by Professor F. O. Matthiessen just before his death last spring and is now published posthumously, the details of Dreiser's life have been subordinated to an analysis of his important work--and the result is a thoroughly satisfying critical essay, though it cannot be called a real biography...