Word: paragraphing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Indeed, upon inspecting Segal's Roman Laughter, a study of the Roman Plautus, one finds in the very first paragraph of the Introduction, a brief put-down of all the "serious" scholars who find Plautus insignificant...
...begin again, and her second foray starts: "As the vice-president of Harvard-Radcliffe Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) I would like to request the use of Harvard University facilities..." But the administration was not to be soothed, for Epps's reply contains, buried in the fourth paragraph of an otherwise sensible discussion concerning the distinction between a local convention of a national group and a national convention of a local group, a brief excursion into the twilight zone of panic and uncertainty: "I shall be grateful if you will let me know what is actually happening." This letter...
...never heard of this person. "I understand," he says cautiously (March 10), "I understand Miss Blustein is under a suspended requirement to withdraw from the College...She is not, therefore acceptable..." But it's too late; the reference to Blustein has forced his hand So in the last major paragraph of the very last letter, the entire convoluted relationship collapses into a denouement of Dunlop-ex-machina: "Finally, the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has expressed serious concern over recent events at Harvard and elsewhere...
Judge Francis J. Ford, in a three paragraph opinion, ruled that in accordance with the opinion handed down last month by the U.S. Supreme Court invalidating Tennessee's one-year residency law, the Massachusetts requirement is illegal...
...Wales, respects his subject-as any newspaperman should. Northcliffe had "the arrogance of the natural journalist, that what interested him would interest his readers." That he made millions proving it was incidental. After the Wright Brothers' first European flight, he raged at his editors for the four-line paragraph they had given it. "Didn't they realize England was no longer an island...