Word: paragrapher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much the same reason, McCalla's suicide is only mildly tragic. In a long paragraph at the end, and once or twice during the proceedings, Halberstam indicates that the new sheriff was caught between duty to his supporters (father, preacher, frigid and nagging wife) on the one hand, and, on the other, a desire to say the hell with it all (frigid and nagging wife). Although he flatly and ethically rejects Angelo's offer of five thousand dollars a year, in return for a certain averting of the eyes, he goes for Claudia, the prostitute, like an alcoholic...
...Friday's review of my book, one sentence is quoted on page R-14 from which is drawn the conclusion that I reject disarmament because of the projected unemployment in the military. The paragraph in which this sentence appears reads as follows...
This seems to me a deliberate misrepresentation. The sentence is taken out of a paragraph which deals with the sanctions available in case of Communist violations of a test ban. Its point was that in case of Soviet violation we might have nothing to test, and that the sanction of our abrogating the ban would not be effective. The full paragraph, which appears on pages 269 and 270, reads as follows...
...would be criminal to begrudge Charpin his paragraph. Particularly in his long scene with Fanny, when he relates his longing for a son ("See how the letters on the sign above my shop are all pushed over to the left, with nothing but blank space on the right? 'H. Panisse,' it says." He reaches into a drawer and pulls out five signletters. "These have been waiting for 30 years: this is F, this is I, this is L, this is S, this is &. Panisse & Fils."), draws out the full scope of Pagnol's script...
...most welcome paragraph on Samuel Krachmalnik, surely one of the most gifted of our young conductors...