Word: essayed
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Johnny Miller hit the nail on the head in his piece praising golfer Tiger Woods [ESSAY, July 3]. But there's more: how a 24-year-old could become the youngest winner of golf's Grand Slam eludes words. Anyone who has not seen this man in action should switch on the TV and watch him play a full tournament. I'm a 20-year-old who is finally getting a chance to see a superstar in the making. I've become a fan and player of golf in no small part thanks to Tiger. The scary thing...
...once wrote an essay for TIME in which, without attribution, I referred to "the hobgoblin of little minds." I had at least a dozen people write to me and say, "You plagiarist! Ralph Waldo Emerson said, 'consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.'" I wrote back and said, "Gee, I assumed the reader would know the Emerson line. Suppose I'd written 'To be or not to be.' Would I need the attribution to Shakespeare?" Jacoby's offense is a little like that...
What impressed senior writer Richard Lacayo, who wrote the opening essay and profiled architect Greg Lynn, was the evangelical zeal of his subject, Lynn, who has a degree in philosophy as well as one in architecture. "He's a very animated talker, really a proselytizer." Senior editor Belinda Luscombe found herself fascinated with the social consciousness of Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, who has made ingenious use of cardboard to build elegant homes for refugees. Senior reporter Daniel S. Levy writes about landscape architect Julie Bargmann, who turns industrial wastelands into places of beauty while preserving their gritty heritage. Says...
...wonder so many American artists have written, sung, painted and even gone round the bend, gone mad, in the name of rivers. In his overboard essay on Huck and Jim, Leslie Fiedler wrote that the river supports "the American dream of isolation afloat." Out of that isolation in motion comes every inspiration, from contemplation (Langston Hughes' "The Negro Speaks of Rivers") to adventure (Hemingway's stories) to despair. The poet John Berryman looked down into the Mississippi and jumped to his death. The river is expanse, but it is also loneliness; Huck finds a loving relationship with...
...team was led by Nation editor Priscilla Painton, who edited the package, and our aptly named Special Projects editor Barrett Seaman, a former Navy man, who coordinated logistics and kept us in line. Other key crew members included photographer Diana Walker; Nancy Gibbs, who wrote the overview Essay; and our Midwest bureau chief Ron Stodghill and Southern bureau chief Timothy Roche, who coordinated the task of scouting out stories...