Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...legislative arteries of Congress was only the latest indication that one of the Government's most vital organs is in need of drastic surgery. That is particularly true of the Senate, whose members have repeatedly refused to allow reformers to interfere with the filibuster, the seniority system (TIME Essay, Dec. 14) and time-consuming procedures almost as aged as the toga. Nevertheless, four freshmen Senators have coaxed the Senate into consenting to some changes that, starting next month, could help the incoming Congress to function more effectively...
Rosen, a Jew, had placed an ad in local newspapers offering to fill in for a Christian who wished to spend Christmas Eve at home. Although Christmas is increasingly a nondenominational festival (see ESSAY, page 33), other Milwaukee Jews joined in the holiday spirit when they learned of Rosen's gesture. Some 300 members of Congregation Emanu-El B'ne Jeshurun volunteered to take over jobs with which they were reasonably familiar so that Christians could have the evening...
...Melvin Maddocks made a number of astute observations in his Essay "In Praise of Reticence" [Nov. 23]. However, I feel that there is something special about air travel that gets complete strangers together. Perhaps the God-above-gravity feeling of air flight tends to lower the barriers against strangers...
...Maddocks' Essay, "In Praise of Reticence," was a point well taken. But since his subject was reticence rather than noise, he might have done well to include the suffocating written word as well as the spoken one. For while it is true that . . . Most of us suffer in some degree From cacoethes loquendi, Yet some who deplore it at length seem to be Afflicted with ditto scribendi...
...whole problem of Tom Wolfe's voice has always been a particularly tricky one. Even within the realms of a single essay, he comes off the indefatigable ventriloquist, first projecting his voice through one character and then rushing off to speak through another. Where Mailer chooses to raise himself as the touchstone against which the rest of his work can be measured, Wolfe dissolves into an invisible man. Occasionally he allows us glimpses of himself, white-suited and bemused, but always he remains elusive...