Word: paragraphed
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...Pravda's chilling announcement, in which the words "the great Stalin" were mentioned only in the concluding paragraph, Malenkov's name was mentioned not at all. The fiction of anonymity persists. Great play was made with another phrase: "The collectivity of leadership is the highest principle of the leadership of our party [and] corresponds to the well-known statement of Marx on the harm of . . . the cult of personality." To which a skeptical reader of Russian rhetoric might answer: "All leaderships are collective, but some leaderships are less collective than others...
...over the unwieldy academic robes. But his oratorical touch was sure. With the graceful spire of the Dartmouth library as an appropriate backdrop, the President talked easily about the need for a future which values fun, courage, and the basic greatness of U.S. life. This brought him to a paragraph which was headlined as his answer to Joe McCarthy's campaign to purge State Department libraries of books by Communists or "controversial" authors (see FOREIGN NEWS). Said Ike: "Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that...
...been suffered in "organized action against Arab bands or invaders." The Tel Aviv court decided otherwise, held that the Deir Yassin attack (but not the massacre) was, in fact, an organized action, and commanded the reluctant Ben-Gurion government to pay the pensions. The news rated hardly an inside paragraph in Israeli newspapers but was bitterly received in the Arab world...
When Turner Catledge, a good, lively reporter, became managing editor of the New York Times two years ago, he started a quiet revolution to liven up the nation's No. 1 paper. Among the changes: sharper, more concise writing, more feature stories, better pictures, TIMEstyle paragraph marks to break . up stories, sprightlier headlines. One means of communication with the Times's massive staff (20 editors, 600 reporters, 80 copy editors): Winners & Sinners, a lively, irreverent house organ originated by Assistant Managing Editor Ted Bernstein. Bernstein's "bulletin of second-guessing" raps staffers when they are heavyhanded, sloppy...
...their editors and writers throughout most of the material that they printed. The newsman of those days was a sort of essayist . . . Gradually editors swung around to a new theory: 'Let's keep our news columns factual and objective . . .' The reporter was told his first paragraph . . . should tell the 'who, what, when, where and why' -and no more...