Word: paragrapher
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...your geography must be slipping. Consider the following paragraph from Cohen's review, all of which must be quoted to make a point: "And then we return to the heartland. Fifty-seven percent of all Iowans think front porch swings should be brought back.' Asked who they would like to return as should they be brought back in another life, 64 percent said they wouldn't mind coming back as themselves. (The four Boisians who voted for Mr. Potato Head [for mayor] perhaps should reconsider...
...Harvard Crimson. The Crimson has always been my friend. On Monday, Nov 4, I went for the Crimson and turned to the special Cambridge page and Lo and Behold! I found my name to be in the Harvard Crimson Editorial column. I came across a paragraph that said "Incumbent Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci's unique brand of populism includes crucial support for rent control--he provides the outgoing Council's fifth. "swing" vote to protect the system. Vellucci, however, opposes the CCA candidates' effort to create a "linkage" program that would help alleviate the pressures of development by requiring large...
...more than one sentence, and it is always a sentence that has an active verb." In her own life, however, Luce insistently defied her own prescription, as she did so many assumptions. Too successful and too driven ever to confine herself to a single sentence, she completed an entire paragraph, baroque with ornamental periods, bristling with active verbs and packed with household names...
...opening paragraph of his article, Nordhaus insinuates that PBHA is full of uncontrolled college students that need the constant supervision of University officials to prevent them from wreaking havoc on the Greater Boston area. In fact, PBHA has over 30 responsibly run committees, each independently operated, that range from World Teach, which places individual from all over the world in Kenya to teach school children, to committees which shelter the homeless. I do not consider myself a "20-year-old with noble intentions," but someone who has spent a great deal of time at PBH during the last three years...
...REASON Leland manages to pull together the disparate strands of the book into something more than a skillful pastiche is his sure touch with his characters and his elegant writing style. While he puts about 10% more-adjectives into a paragraph than I like to see, he avoids the egregious literary spew that the South seems to inspire in its chroniclers...