Word: paragrapher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comment on "culture shock" distorts--deliberately, I suspect--what I wrote. His second paragraph of critisms is contradicted by Mr. Bass's letter. His third supports my argument, applauding the shapelessness of the Nieman program, but fails to deal with my complaint that the Nieman office could do much more to open Harvard's door...
...Your Essay did a thorough job of covering a touchy subject which most people would rather not even think about, let alone discuss. But more important, you did not stop at a mere examination of the topic. What impressed me was your smashingly direct last paragraph. It seems to me that the word compassion is often misunderstood when used in connection with such problems as the subject of your Essay, or the criminal, or the rebellious teenager. You have cleaned the air with words...
Actually, it's all rather engaging for a while, because Reagan's ghostwrites in a sassy, colloquial style that cries, "Look at me." But it's overdone, and soon becomes too cute and too flippant. Even in serious moments, such as the single paragraph summary of his divorce from actress Jane Wyman. Reagan parodies his suffering "if you hit us we bruise, if you cut us (forgive me Shakespeare) we bleed...
...Conservative is editor Dunham's discussion of "The Civil Rights Movement and Public Policy." It spreads over ten pages of double-column print, and in my copy of the magazine all ten pages are covered with angry red chicken scratches. Exception can be taken to every single paragraph. In short, it's a pretty effective article. Dunham weaves theory and example with fair skill and maintains a consistency of tone and ideology throughout the whole marathon...
...last piece of fiction, "The Sentimental Journey of Arthur Friedberg," is simply clumsy and banal. David Ansen blows a paragraph of dull theme into several pages of dull plot...