Word: paragraphed
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...majority's reasoning "revolutionary" in its voiding of state convictions. Justice Hugo Black was even more scathing. "It certainly relieves us of work to abate these so-called sit-in cases," he commented in court. But, he contended in his written dissent: "I do not find one paragraph, one sentence, one clause, or one word in the 1964 Act on which the most strained efforts of the most fertile imagination could support such a conclusion. The idea that Congress has power to accomplish such a result has no precedent, so far as I know, in the nearly 200 years...
...While Mr. J. K. Jackson's letter [Nov. 6] is misleading, TIME'S statement on Mr. Wilson's education is correct. Mr. Jackson seemed to infer in his final paragraph that past Prime Ministers educated by tutors fall below the status of those with a grammar school education. The very opposite is the case. A good private tutor is a more costly form of education than even that of Eton. I should know, for I was educated by the former and my brother at the latter, and I cost my father a great deal more with probably...
That's what happens when you summarize Tolstoy in a paragraph. What is important here is evil--when Nekhlyudov stopped listening to his conscience, evil began. So, too, the vices of bureaucrats and the injustices of procedure share Nekhlyudov's guilt for Katyusha's dilemma. But forgiveness is also important: both Katyusha and Nekhlyudov emerge "good people" after their long and torturing period of atonement. Not to mention the people, the imperfect masses Tolstoy cherished...
...intellectual who likes to consider things long and hard from both sides, frequently has difficulty in making up his mind. And so it is with Ecclesiam Suam (His Church, meaning Christ's), the first two words of the encyclical, which by church custom become its title. In paragraph after paragraph-and Paul himself suggested that the encyclical might ultimately become most celebrated for its length-the key word seemed...
...paragraph example of extremism by Negro Comedian Ray Scott [July 31] is the most revolting, sadistic thing I have ever read. I'm beginning to understand why there will be a "white backlash" in November...