Word: paragraphic
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These report to the student in paragraph form about such things as his quality of interest, development, ability for independent work, understanding of the field or of a particular course, and his written and oral expression. Also, they classify a student's grasp of ideals, factual material, initiative, participation, and course work from "Excellent" to "Below Minimum Standards." Grades are put in the bottom right hand corner...
...good general, Mark Wayne Clark has always fought to win. Nothing in his character or in his World War II experience could leave him content with anything less. Yet in his new book, From the Danube to the Yalu, he finds it necessary to write, in the very first paragraph: "In carrying out the instructions of my government, I gained the unenviable distinction of being the first United States Army commander in history to sign an armistice without victory...
...caressing the child's head in a fatherly fashion, the baby begins to wail and what was gentle fondling becomes a severe enough rubbing to kill the infant. Pitts has the ability to convert the discontinuous ramblings of a man's thought into readable and convincing prose. His first paragraph on the hypnotic effect of a gate scraping back and forth along the ground and, later, the section on Jem's mounting irritation as the child's crying grows in intensity are particularly fine...
This bit of pastoral reporting marked a considerable change of pace for a TIME correspondent whose stories usually originate from places such as Washington's Federal Reserve Building, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation or the President's Council of Economic Advisers. The author of the paragraph is George Bookman, business and economics reporter in TIME'S Washington office, who recently covered one of the capital's most pleasant news assignments: Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas' 178-mile hike along the old Chesapeake & Ohio Canal...
...second paragraph of the "sovereignty" manifesto made plain what the Kremlin's brand of "freedom" amounts to: "The Soviet Union retains . . . those functions which are connected with the safeguarding of security." The Red army, in other words, will continue to maintain its 340,000-man garrison in East Germany, a dagger directed at NATO, a club to be used against the East German people should they rebel again against their Red masters...