Joan Acocella characterizes my introductory essay, "Variation and Change in Our Living Language," in the 2011 edition of the American Heritage Dictionary, as "prescriptivism — no doubt about it" ("The English Wars," May 14th).
In the 1990s, while others essayed unsubtle variations on his sound and sense, Currie almost gave up poised and sibilant perversion for a brief but lucrative tenure as songwriter to one of Japan's most successful pop stars, Kahimi Karie.
A virtuoso color performance, the painting is an essay on the variations of white perceptible in the reflection of sun on crisp new snow.
In a developing theme-and-variation essay on modern tailoring, the two men conjured up an image of "Mad Men" suavity with matinee-idol suits, butterfly bow ties, Savile Row checks and spectator shoes.
His publications include a collection of essays, Theme and Variations (1972); works for musical instruction, Violin: Six Lessons (1972) and Violin and Viola (1976; with William Primrose and Denis Stevens); The Music of Man (1979; with Curtis W. Davis); and an autobiography, Unfinished Journey (1977; released with four additional chapters in 1997 as Unfinished Journey: Twenty Years Later).
To follow up this lesson, I assign my students the task of researching and writing an essay describing replication, variation, and selection in any species they choose.
Ms. Joseph's suggestion is a variation on essay prompts by Stanford and Harvard universities in recent years, which suggested writing a letter to a future roommate.
(a variation of this essay appeared International Policy Digest, October 29, 2015).
A variation of this essay first appeared on IceScreamMama.
Our rubric for the short essay questions contained three components: variation, heritability, and differential reproductive success.
