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...eligibility requirements, the group agreed to add the following paragraph to the existing agreement...
...ascribe these opinions to Theodore Morrison is to confuse the fictional character and his world with the character and the world of the artist who created them--a fairly serious critical error. That your reviewer commits this error seems plain. In six consecutive sentences (including the end of paragraph two, all of paragraph three, and the opening of paragraph four), are listed a number of specific attitudes. At the beginning of this sequence, the "he" to whom the attitudes are ascribed is Andrew Aiken; by the end of it, the "he" has become Theodore Morrison...
...fact that Senator Kennedy of Massachusetts had received but one letter made the twentieth paragraph. One Senator observed that the letters were "organized promotion," but the Post found no room for that...
...test of the Review Board's indictment has had a further demoralizing effect. One paragraph "notes" Vincent's praise of the Chinese communists "at a time when it was the declared and established policy of the United States to support Chiang Kai-Shek's government." Without clarification, the meaning of this statement is obscure and highly disturbing. Foreign Service officers wonder whether the Board is accusing Vincent of actively pursuing a contradictory policy, or whether "declared and established policy" means a party line with which private disagreement is suspect. As long as this is unexplained, any foreign officer must question...
...interminably as bubbles from a test tube held in a hot blue flame. Two hours may pass, but the answer to a simple question is not complete; Bucky is still stewing, happily and softly, in his own rich juices, his quiet, cultivated New England voice scarcely varying from paragraph to momentous paragraph. Any interruption jars him; he copes with it politely, lays it aside, and resumes from where he thinks he ought to be. After three hours, the visitor may rise to leave. "May I borrow two more minutes," says Bucky, "to complete the thought...