Word: paragraphic
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...week at age 79 after a long illness, Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin had become an unperson in his homeland, an ignored and forgotten figure who in his last years idled away his time strolling along Moscow's boulevards and watching chess games in the park. Izvestia devoted only a paragraph to his obituary and no officials attended the perfunctory 30-minute funeral service...
...printed in England in 1932) obviously had great fun making history come out differently. A great part of the reader's amusement in reading these revisionist fantasies lies in arguing with the authors. Knowing a bit of history helps, but the editor tactfully prefaces each chapter with a paragraph or so of authentic history to remind dullards of the actual date, say, of Kaiser Wilhelm's accession to power and what really happened at Sarajevo...
Kawabata's face is that of a man who has indeed reached an ending, and speculation, though idle, is unavoidable. In what seems to be the only unguarded paragraph in the book, Kawabata's hero, a middle-aged writer, wryly asks his wife the proper retirement age for a novelist. The novel itself is an answer: it is time to stop writing when there is nothing left but professionalism...
...through again. In case Mr. Weiss hadn't realized it, a "News Analysis" differs substantially from an editorial in that it doesn't draw conclusions, but rather, attempts to analyze the consequences of a certain story. Weiss doesn't do this at all, but rather editorializes in his second paragraph when he says the case shows how "the legal mechanisms of this state can be stretched to contrive that an abortion was a birth and then to prosecute one doctor for manslaughter." That's not drawing a conclusion...
...professor would begin to understand how a factory workers feels if he had to type the same paragraph from 9:00 to 5:00 every day of the week. Instead of setting the pace himself, the professor's typewriter carriage should begin to move at 9:00 and continue at a steady pace until 5:00. The professor's job would be at stake if his typing did not keep up the pace...