"I tend to be morose sometimes," he told the winners of a high school essay contest in 2009.
But he turned up in a Washington ballroom the other night to respond to questions from the winners of a high school essay contest.
The new "Gatsby" is as colorful and easy to watch as the novel is easy to read, and as forgettable as a high school essay.
The students were instructed to imagine that their teacher was a Nazi and to construct an argument that Jews were "the source of our problems" using historical propaganda and, of course, a traditional high school essay structure.
Mr. Wiesel will also appear on a segment of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" to be taped in February that will feature winners of a national high school essay contest based on the book.
Her father took young Ellen along with him to work, and she wrote a high school essay on how she wanted to become a businesswoman, a laughable notion in that era.
When pot-smoking Zach wins a high school essay contest by writing "What Goes Up Must Come Down," about the perils of drug use, the doctor fails to detect any whiff of hypocrisy in his son's accomplishment.
I would fail someone in a high school essay if they tried to present evidence in the manner that they do.
Season 2 is that presentation you faked your way through by charming your colleagues with donuts, or that high school essay you bullshitted with highbrow vocabulary and overly polished exposition to extend your thesis beyond the third page.
It follows then that the best advice for writing a paper -- be it a high school essay, a college research paper, or even an office memo at a Fortune 500 company -- would come from the tactics of a brilliant military commander.
