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...article in my view, I shall begin there. The author was kind enough to first point out why we thought we wrote the letter, i.e., to prevent the appointment of "an outsider who would de-emphasize the intercollegiate athletic program." Fair enough. He then, however, in a paragraph conveniently following the above description, told us and the readership of The Crimson why we really wrote the letter. He implied that we were merely the pawns of our high-powered, overzealous coaches who were fearful of Peck's affect on the recruiting of high school athletes. This is very convenient indeed...
...possible that you were not conscious while you read the above paragraph? Julian Jaynes, a Princeton psychologist and author of The Crisis of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, would probably say you were...
...unpardonable omissions. Davis tells at length the tragedy of the Indians of the East, uprooted and sent West on the Trail of Tears. But in the next section, Colleague David Herbert Donald (who writes crisply on the Civil War) reduces the entire Indian conflict in the West to one paragraph. Americans of Puerto Rican or Mexican origin are given hardly a nod, and then a misguided one: the book asserts that Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers movement "declined...
There are strange misproportions too. High Noon, as a parable of the cold war, merits a paragraph. Mark Twain's career is summed up in a sentence. Chief Joseph's picture is in the book, but not his moving farewell to his Nez Perce Indians: "I will fight no more forever." The Great Republic has long and genuinely informative passages on demographics -but too often the people are simply numbers, without faces or names...
Sample assignment: Write a paragraph on "the advantages of an encyclopedia in every home." The intended reader-an auto mechanic in his 40s, with children. books in his den. and perhaps the question, "With a library down the street, why do we need an encyclopedia?" First, the student must set down short answers to a battery of questions framed in the special Van Nostrand jargon: What is the reader's "frame of reference"? What is the "organizing idea" (theme) of the paragraph? What "set of information" (facts) will be worked into the paragraph? Only after dutifully outlining the requirements...