Word: paragraphed
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...kept the piece shorter, however. Though the writing reflects considerable discipline, the inchoate literary form she has chosen tempts Miss Bosworth into needless digressions. At times the juxtaposition of dialogue, description, and commentary becomes confusing, or worse, simply cute. Occasionally she packs too many images and adjectives into a paragraph. But these are technical criticisms. Here, I feel, is a writer with something legitimate to say and at least a rough knowledge...
...narrator, a holidaying poet and biographer who is indistinguishable from Author Muriel Rukeyser herself, is supposed to be scouting for a friend who makes movies, but abandons the notion after tucking back her first glass of Irish whisky. This, as she reports it, is a two-paragraph drink, full of a poet's notion of prose, beginning "The Irish touched my lips, cool, and then branched out in purity of fire, lips, breath, breasts . . ." and ending "all other whisky is the shadow of Power...
...offer a slightly different version of your first paragraph: Except for its pounds and francs, the rest of the world has never really been good enough for the Americans, who for 20 years have looked down their Rocky noses at the other people on earth...
...paragraph was inadvertently omitted from yesterday's story on WHRB. It read...
...typify the attitude with which many CRIMSON reviewers approach their task, and to which, unfortunately, many student actors and actresses have grown cynically accustomed. I refer to the always carefully postulated disdain for "theatrical gimmicks" which one generally finds following that ominous "But" which invariably opens the second paragraph...