There is a whole essay constructed around the argument that while black Britons riot, they do not demonstrate on a national scale, which makes no mention of the Black People's Day of Action in response to the 1981 New Cross fire - about which Linton Kwesi Johnson has written poems.
The first version (the one that appears in the book, published in 1982) is a short, lyrical essay constructed on a single Blakean theme — the theme of a "real self" that finally emerged from among Plath's warring "false selves" and found triumphant expression in the "Ariel" poems, which were written in the last half year of her life and are the whole reason for her poetical reputation.
What you have is a visual essay rather than an epic, and a fine and absorbing essay: tightly constructed, intelligently thought out, stylishly presented.
In essay after essay, he constructs arguments that are urgent challenges to the reader and shows his skill at bringing down large targets with small but damaging phrases, like a sniper armed with dum-dum bullets.
The program is a carefully constructed essay on Central Europe: in addition to Dvorak, it features music by Bartok, Smetana and Boulanger -- George, not Nadia.
As Gladwell wrote in that 1996 essay, "We have constructed a world in which the potential for high-tech catastrophe is embedded in the fabric of day-to-day life".
Most, indeed, of this elegantly constructed essay is about why an unrivalled military and economic power still needs allies or partners, and why, as world leader, America should rely also on the soft, persuasive kind of power: the appeal of its values and culture.
Malcolm Gladwell wrote in a 1996 New Yorker essay, "We have constructed a world in which the potential for high-tech catastrophe is embedded in the fabric of day-to-day life".
Ed Cavanaugh, the teacher who founded the program, collected the students' cellphones to minimize distractions, then reviewed the day's schedule: sailing, working on essays and constructing a 15-foot boat that the group has already spent seven weeks building on the dock.
In one of the three fluid and deftly constructed essays that make up "Normal," Luis, a female-to-male transsexual, admits that although he has undergone surgery so that his outside "matches" his inside, he is less sure than ever what it means to be a man or a woman.
It became apparent to me I'm [like] Richard Pryor, letting his guts spill out on stage, more than my father, whose highly perfected, highly constructed essays [were] memorized and presented to the audience.
