Word: paragraphing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would have been a much more pleasant surprise to and bits of my article for the Stanford Daily reprinted in the CRIMSON if you had included more of my positive statements. For example, I wish you had quoted the last paragraph, which said "I'm not sorry I transferred. There are many new ideas and live people here, and I'm lucky to get to know them." Of if you had mentioned my suggestion that Stanford should develop some of the academic enthusiasm that Harvard...
...nurturing an evangelical ambition "to inform, inspire and entertain." For its first eight years, the magazine subsisted on previously printed wares, simplified and condensed to accommodate Wallace's notion of suitable brevity or a reader's attention span. Even today, the Digest frequently shears the lead paragraph from reprinted articles, on the assumption that the author is only clearing his throat. Both in selecting and cutting, Wallace's hand was sure from the start. With only minor amendment, much of the February 1922 issue's table of contents could pass a Digest reader's muster...
...paragraph as composed by Vaughan is not to be confused with the paragraph as defined by grammarians. Sometimes Vaughan's product is no more than a sentence, and seldom does it exceed two. When successful, it is a marvel of compression, laced with wisdom or wit. "The paragraph is an uncompromising medium," says Vaughan. "In 25 or 30 words you have to say something wise or funny, with no chance to pad it out or conceal the lack of point. Also, the paragraph presupposes some information on the part of the reader. The paragrapher can't explain what...
Cost of Living. One of the first paragraphers on record was a Louisville, Ky., editor named George D. Prentice. In the mid-19th century Prentice honed his paragraphs into needles to puncture rival editors. In his hands and others, the paragraph took on the quality of wit and humor that characterize it still. One of the best of the later breed was the Indianapolis' News's late, famed Frank McKinney ("Kin") Hubbard, who, as Abe Martin, turned out paragraphs by the thousands. "I think some folks are foolish." wrote Kin Hubbard. "to pay what it costs to live...
...Paragrapher Vaughan, also writes essays for the Star, and recently scored two solid hits in this new department: the Bell Syndicate is syndicating his essays, and Simon & Schuster will soon publish a collection of them, Bird Thou Never Wert, in book form. But once a paragrapher, always a paragrapher. Said Essayist Vaughan of his book title, automatically composing a paragraph: "It fits the two main requirements for a book title today-it comes from the classics and means absolutely nothing...