Spare and unyielding, his scripts – more than 30 in all, not to mention a sizeable stack of adaptations, novels and essays – circle obsessively around the perplexities of meaning.
Many of these essays circle around a critical moment in 1981, when McPherson, leaving "a very bad marriage," fled his professorship at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville for one at the Iowa Writers Workshopp.
What kind of airplane could that be?" he recounts in his essay, Circled by a UFO.
Mr. Plumly, himself a poet, has carefully chosen not to tell Keats's story in linear or chronological order; his book is a series of interlocked essays that circle (sometimes repetitiously) around certain themes.
The concluding paragraph, for example, should already have done the heavy lifting in terms of condensing the main point of the paper; in fact, borrowing a phrase from the conclusion and using it as your title will give your essay a nice "circle" effect, providing the reader with a sense of closure.
Then, in a lengthy comment added to the final edition of his essays, he completes the circle from animal-to-human to human-to-human again, concluding that we cannot help but communicate ourselves in some way – that our own physical movements "converse and discourse" – even if it is something to which we are habitually blind: What of the hands?
In his recent book of essays about college sports, "Circling the Bases," he also called for federal legislation to cap — and lower — coaches' egregious salaries.
Foreign magazines like Mr. Bei's, which combines work by Western and Chinese authors, must have permits for import, although many circulate in intellectual circles and essays published overseas are often available on the Chinese Internet.
For Garbo, playing Napoleon's mistress in Clarence Brown's "Conquest" (1937), he designed a long-sleeved Empire-style gown in deep yellow-green of sumptuous sheen and texture, whose flowing skirt fell straight from a high waist to pool on the floor in a circle: an essay in pure glamour.
The Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee approved in principle the Swami Vivekananda Values Education Project at a cost of, with objectives including involving youth with competitions, essays, discussions and study circles and publishing Vivekananda's works in a number of languages.
It was this conversation I recalled as I read Juan Vidal's recent lament, "Where Have All the Poets Gone?" -- a provocative take-down of the current poetry establishment and, as such, a much-circulated essay in poetry circles.
