Word: essayed
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That doesn't mean we aren't winning, nonetheless. In the olden days of aristocracy (Levine wrote her Dana Reed Prize-winning essay in 1963) there may have been more New York peach types, or beatnik limes, but in the new millennium meritocracy, us chocolates are in the majority...
...Once again, Wolfe is America's own inspired and intrepid reporter. This volume takes its title from the first essay, entitled "Hooking Up: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the Second Millennium: An American's World." Here, Wolfe touches on the themes he will take on in the rest of the book, topics like the Internet, art, sex in America, "intellectuals" (what are those?), the culture of Silicon Valley, and the strange habits of deconstructionists. After all, what better material for entertainment than that which is actually happening and unfolding around you? So goes the mantra...
...power of critical (and cynical) observation. He has set himself up as the ever-omniscient observer, surveying the scenery at the end of one so-called American century and the beginning of another, pointing out society's ironies and flaws and triumphs. The title of the title essay comes from Wolfe's discussion of how young people go about hooking up today, but the book also has chapters discussing the implications of neurobiology and ("Sorry, but Your Soul Just Died") the fallacies of American intellectuals ("In the Land of the Rococo Marxists") and the rise of Silicon Valley ("Two Young...
Bloom writes at the end of his essay on Falstaff in Shakespeare that "Falstaff needs an audience, and never fails to find it. We need Falstaff, because we have so few images of authentic vitaliam...
...What impressed Coles so much about Kennedy was not just his genuine interest and concern for the issue, but his determination to be both politically pragmatic and morally just. There are also chapters covering a wide variety of efforts and lives of moral leadership. We get an interview-essay chapter on Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, but we also hear the story of a New Orleans elementary school teacher trying to discuss the moral implications of the Civil Rights struggle at the very height of that movement. Lives of Moral Leadership is full of large and small...