Word: paragraphing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three and one-half pages on Elvis and one paragraph on Groucho [Aug. 29]? Shame...
...author obviously knows the methods of his florid villains very well -but seems to have only a casual interest in them. He nudges the story along every so often, but the entire climax is accomplished in exactly one paragraph. The rest of the time he browses amiably among his policemen. At one point the commisaris quotes a Chinese philosopher...
Contrary to the impression left by the brief paragraph mentioning our views in your cover story on sociobiology [Aug. 1], we believe that the moral teachings found in the world's religions are historically developed cultural products, opposing the selfish tendencies which biological evolution builds into human nature and which are serious obstacles to social cooperation. The golden rule and love of neighbors are not gene-based tendencies in each of us, but are on the contrary socially evolved preachings designed to curb the gene-based greed for more than our share for ourselves, our children and subsequent progeny...
...discharges his rage in one frenzied paragraph of violent passion in which his writing seems to be as much of a catharsis as the impeachment he writes about--"I impeached myself and exiled myself, removing myself from friends, family, and all the world, committing multiple ax murders and suicide all at the same time." And in the next paragraph Mee finally meets Haldeman, who of course turns out to be a nice guy--in fact "one of the great flat-out bores of our times...
...with any Palestinians, but P.L.O. Chief Yasser Arafat preceded (and in some places also followed) the U.S. diplomat at every stop except Jordan. Arriving in Alexandria after Vance had departed, Arafat convinced Sadat to modify the "working group" idea by including-as a smiling Arafat described it-"a new paragraph on the Palestinians." Added an Egyptian official: "It leaves no doubt that the Palestinian rights will be respected...