Word: paragraphing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suggest that President Johnson hire the editorial staff of TIME Magazine collectively as his chief adviser, since it was able to do in approximately 40 words in the first paragraph of your May 28th Nation section what McGeorge Bundy has been unable to do without alienating large segments of American society and of the press-state the aim of Washington with regard to the Dominican Republic, in a simple, sensible manner...
...protesting statement does not deal with this plea. It almost did. In hasty and ill-considered action those present voted to delete the following paragraph...
...deletion was made because of fear that someone might conclude that some equation was made between U.S. patriots and the Viet Cong. Unfortunately this paragraph was the only one in the whole document which showed an awareness of what the Administration is trying to to do, and the only one which attempted to show why what is was trying to do will not work...
...President and his Secretaries have made it abundantly clear that they are trying to stop World War II in Vietnam. No opportunity should be missed to point out that such a goal is an anachronism and is impossible. The faculty members are missing such an opportunity. The paragraph should be retained. If necessary the italicised words could be dropped to avoid the interpretation which was feared. Richard A. Kraus Teaching Fellow in Economics
...gimmicks in the Advocate help diversify the contents of the magazine but add little substance. Any of them might have been conveniently omitted. After a paragraph or two the article by Mao ceases to amuse. Five early lyrics by Wallace Stevens seem to be an oblique (and unnecessary) apology for the poetry in the rest of the Advocate. Since the collegiate Stevens was still an amateur, we are urged to be more tolerant of undergraduates writing in our own day. Actually the poems prove only that Stevens' style changed a lot later on, and got a lot better...