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...close as any to what I took to be the concern of the expository writing program," Jean Slingerland, assistant director of expository writing before Byker, said. "The sections were not designed to turn out newspapermen. Their goal was to teach people how to put words on paper in concise, lucid prose, with generalizations backed up with proof, and to meet a deadline. These happen to be the same as the values in journalism. Unfortunately, to list the course as journalism, you're apt to give the impression you're teaching about fillers and the number of words to the column...
...explain the mysteries of Chinese politics to Western readers has two unusual features. First, Richard Solomon, a China analyst with the National Security Council, and his collaborator Talbot W. Huey, a political science teacher at the University of Massachusetts, have assembled a kaleidoscope of photographic images for which their lucid text serves as a kind of continuous caption. The result is an intentionally McLuhanesque message about China rather than systematic exposition. It is impressionistic, incomplete and even a bit whimsical. But it provides as vivid a sense of the complexities of Maoist China as any book yet published...
...tradition, Enrico and Younger Brother Giovanni, now 51 and a Communist Deputy, haunted a Sassari cafe favored by old-line Communist and Socialist workers, playing an Italian version of poker called "Il Ramino" with them and arguing politics. Says one of the cafe habitues proudly: "If today he has lucid ideas, it's because he spent hours talking to humble people like us. Politically, we made...
This bald summary scants Commoner's enviable skill at explaining complicated technical issues in lucid and lively terms. The reader rides as easily on Commoner's prose as on one of his favorite electric trains. Then, suddenly, the author's destination looms up. He blames America's energy, environmental and economic troubles squarely on the baneful evolution of the once effective capitalistic system because it aims to emphasize "private profit rather than social value." The solution, "at least in principle," Commoner insists, is some form of socialism...
...plenty descriptive and doesn't wrench a person outside the bounds of ordinary human experience. Mary, the Eternal Woman, is indeed typical, for she cannot deal straightforwardly with sexuality, and her virginity has nothing to do with her reservations and furtive denial of desire. Christ is rarely lucid. Perhaps the burden of sin makes him appear half-witted a lot of the time, and his body is wracked by hoarse coughing and as wasted as a consumptive's. He is also referred...