Word: essay
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...essay is the ditch-digging occupation of writing. Ishmael Reed...
...visceral impressions and off-the-cuff (oftentimes, off-the-wall) philosophy. To call upon Dr. Johnson's phrase, Dispatches was "an irregular, undigested piece." Or to borrow a word from the French in referring to the form later perfected by the English, Herr's book was, quite frankly, an essay...
...your Essay on "The Decline and Fall of Oratory" [Aug. 18]: great speeches require great men. Rhetoric is a set of tools that anyone can use; the problem is not with the tools, but with the people who use them...
...irony in reading your Essay the morning after Senator Edward Kennedy's persuasive address to the Democratic Convention...
...concur with Roger Rosenblatt's Essay on the intimate relationship between politics and sport in the Olympic Games [Aug. 4]. But I regret the omission of any reference to the wealthy and flamboyant