Word: paragraphing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...figure too weary to be consistently ironic, like a Jamesian European sick of looking at the Catskills; The Conscience of Love throws a squat, unprepossessing narrator into a preposterous muddle of satire, false pathos, and genuine evil. One senses the irony stretching nearly to parody from the first paragraph...
Mauriac's technique uses only thoughts and dialogue; there is no narrative and no plot. But he is easy on his readers; his interior monologues are phrased mostly in complete sentences, and although he shifts characters from paragraph to paragraph, there is usually some indication of who is doing the thinking...
...From a Catholic point of view your article is rank with slanted, loaded adjectives, spelling vendetta in every paragraph...
...sort of story, although, happily, none of the others can approach "Mrs. Stratton" for length. Apparently though, O'Hara felt guilty about including so many uneventful tales, for he tries to make up for it with several others in which all kinds of wild, unbelievable things happen in every paragraph...
This is Taylor's last paragraph, and probably the most important in the book. For Hitler's frenzy did cause the World War (in this sense; Taylor's title is misleading); but that was when he had abondoned the course which produced only the limited explosion...