Word: paragrapher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...basic commodity: money. She supplies the rest, in a pattern so skillfully simple, informal and clear that it slides readily even into the nonexpert mind. "Increasing productivity" turns into "a bigger output per man per hour." "Discount rate" becomes "borrowing rate." Rather than indulge in bafflegab, Sylvia takes a paragraph to explain the jargon...
With equal effect, she dips into her own experience to make points. "One of America's leading dermatologists simplified my life and slashed my personal budget a few months ago," she confided in a column last September. In the chatty paragraph that followed, Sylvia admitted a feminine partiality for expensive face creams ("I won't confess to myself, much less to you, what I was spending"), but said she had given them up when a skin specialist assured her that nothing, but nothing, beats common soap. This little white lie (in private fact, she still dabs on assorted...
...your second paragraph points out, the Student Council has undertaken a comprehensive educational program in Twentieth Century Week and has taken a very prominent position in NSA affairs--especially in the New England region. I would like to point out that most of the effort and interest in these areas has resulted from the efforts of few Student Council members matched by a some-what larger number of non-Council Harvard students...
...MacDonald there are three kinds of culture: 1. Lowbrow (including most movies, almost all television, Life, The Saturday Evening Post). 2. Highbrow (the paintings in art museums, most literature studied in universities, The Partisan Review). 3. Middlebrow (which, being the subject actually of his entire piece, will require a paragraph...
Month after month in Washington, Touré's negotiators bickered and quibbled over each paragraph in the proposed agreement, demanding in effect that the U.S. just hand over the cash and be done with it. Although aware that Toure was under pressure from the Communists to cut off his Western dealings altogether, the U.S. negotiators, partially hemmed in by U.S. laws, insisted that Guinea follow the rules if it wanted the aid. Finally, a few weeks ago, the Guineans quietly signed on the dotted line-so quietly, in fact, that no announcement was made at all in Conakry newspapers...