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Befriending many writers along the way, Ricker knew Seymour Krim and became his literary executor in 1990, after the beat essayist's death.
Regina Weinreich: Bruce Ricker/Jazz Foundation of America -- Keeping the Spirit Alive Regina Weinreich 2011
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Befriending many writers along the way, Ricker knew Seymour Krim and became his literary executor in 1990, after the beat essayist's death.
Regina Weinreich: Bruce Ricker/Jazz Foundation of America -- Keeping the Spirit Alive Regina Weinreich 2011
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He has the natural essayist's ability to riff on a diverting theme.
The Memory Chalet by Tony Judt – review Peter Preston 2010
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It's as though she never unlearned the high-school essayist's habit of meeting word count requirements with needless extra words that aren't really quite necessary to include, incorporate or add, as it were, if you will.
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Boeing shouldn't disregard the essayist's wisdom as it considers enriching its own promises to workers threatening a strike.
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Update: Commenter Griff makes the good point that the above post suffers from "the essayist's curse of trying to make a rigid conclusion from random circumstances."
The Strange Love of Hal B. Wallis Jaime J. Weinman 2007
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At best you'll be able to achieve the essayist's standard of proof, not the mathematician's or the experimentalist's.
How to Do Philosophy 2007
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Update: Commenter Griff makes the good point that the above post suffers from "the essayist's curse of trying to make a rigid conclusion from random circumstances."
Archive 2007-02-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2007
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I am not sure whether she is unwilling to play the personal essayist's game of quirky disclosure, or simply so possessed of a piously conventional liberal outlook that there is nothing odd to tell.
Best-Selling Names, One-Liner Prose and Thought Without the Thinking 1998
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He would invent a dialogue, and an essayist's manner, that would be entirely transparent, or two-dimensional, so that no topic could be presented in depth, and heavily handled.
Adventurer Hampshire, Stuart 1969
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