The program is Olbermann's innovative circus, where he juggles essays, field reports and interviews from his retro perch in what could have been Grantland Rice's office.
His gods are Montaigne, the father of the essay, whose field of research was his own mind, and William Hazlitt, who, besides being an incomparable literary critic, sketched vehement novelistic impressions of what no one else thought worth noticing, from boxing matches and Indian jugglers to "the pleasure of hating".
Only one person had to write a stupid essay about the field trip to Newark Airport.
Reading Andrew Motion's lucid, brilliant, melancholic poetry collection The Customs House I was reminded of Edward Thomas's moodily captivating essay "One Green Field' in which Thomas realises how "Happiness is not to be pursued, though pleasure may be; but I have long thought that I should recognize happiness could I ever achieve it..
They were asked to explore various perspectives, and the 'pros and cons' on the topic of 'Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)' in order to write an argumentative essay in the field of biotechnology.
It may serve as well to see some contemporary issues in philosophy of language, or mind, or in metaphysics from a slightly different perspective, and for all these reasons this entry may also serve in a small way as a "state of the art" essay on the field.
Depending on the health issue studied, specific individual or group work was required, such as writing of an essay, implementing a field investigation, planning a health intervention or collecting health data related to their own country or to a specific situation.
I give thanks for Thoreau's "Bean-Field" essay in "Walden," the best literary defense of the ecological role of weeds.
The incoming president has also written or edited 13 books and has published more than 350 journal articles and essays in the field of psychology.
Maybe, and maybe not: one of the most influential essays in the field, "Bowling Alone", by Robert Putnam of Harvard University, pointed out that Americans were far less likely to be members of community organisations, clubs or associations in the 1990s than they were in the 1950s.
