Word: paragrapher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...occasional reader of the CRIMSON I found your September 29 editorial tribute to Summer Welles interesting. However I dropped my coffee cup over the fourth paragraph. Are you really suggesting that the "USIA propaganda techniques" are morally or technically comparable with "this era of McCarthy purges"? McCarthy was--in his own way--brilliantly successful for a time. Are you suggesting that USIA is also brilliantly successful and uses McCarthy's methods...
...report says innocently, as though this development were independent of any action on Harvard's part, the College's scholarship endowment and the amount of its awards both doubled, and "the College continued to help about one-quarter of each class with scholarships." The rest of the single paragraph given to scholarships--possibly the most important issue discussed in the report--consists of generalizations about loans and part-time jobs...
Stylistically, Sartre and Mills may have altered their approaches too much, but Matthews has adjusted his too little. The four-paragraph clusters of the editorial writer sever many logical threads; and time and again there is a relapse into philosophical speculation and repetitive generalizations about the responsibility of the reporter...
...Reason thus becomes the most scrupulously scrutinized period of Durant's entire enterprise, this volume contains some curious errors of emphasis: the great migration of peasants and adventurers, jailbirds and divines from the England of James I to the New World is dismissed in a paragraph; the years during which Ivan the Terrible, Boris Godunov and the first of the Romanov dynasty were transforming Muscovite Russia into an imperial power get only six pages...
Moscow's message was obviously intended to have a special evangelical appeal to the new nations of Africa and Asia still struggling for independence or economic success; paragraph after paragraph assured the "poor, struggling peoples" of Russia's support and socialism's sympathy. But along with the promise of friendship went a warning. The nationalism of emergent nations, said Khrushchev, may be "historically justified" as a reaction against "imperialist " oppression," but "national narrow-mindedness does not disappear automatically with the establishment of the socialist system." Translation: The kind of nationalism that opposes the U.N. in Africa...