Word: paragraphing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...headline declares that Herrnstein was "baited," the first paragraph that he was "intercepted," and "noisily pursued," the second that he regarded whatever had happened as "intense personal harrassment," and the fourth that he was "confronted" after "about 25 people simultaneously burst through" the doors of the lecture room. The fifth paragraph discloses that Herrnstein "strode grimfaced" through a crowd and that "a brief scuffle occurred between Herrnstein and an unidentified SDS member," the sixth that he and a policeman walked to William James Hall while SDS and UAG "continued to shower him with questions...
Listen, every time we're given SDS literature, our real understanding of their material is repulsed at their method of accusation. Why must they shout hysterical revolutionary chants or the most vogue right-on cliches? It's assumed that each paragraph will contain three references to such bloodcurdling descriptions as 'Racist butcher" or "pigeonman". What must be presented are the underlying facts of the American political-power-system. What must be suggested is the type of political action necessary to achieve democratic control of our nation's resources...
...Josephus, a 1st century Jewish historian writing in Greek, was for centuries perhaps the most cited piece of non-Christian testimony to the life and works of Jesus. Tacitus and Pliny mentioned Jesus briefly, as did Josephus in another shorter passage in his Antiquities. But Josephus' ingenuous paragraph appeared to be everything that Christian apologists could ask from a supposedly unbiased source: virtual confirmation of the basic truths of their faith. The trouble was, scholars began to object during the Enlightenment, that such a passage could hardly have been written by a nonbeliever, and had almost certainly been reworked...
ROBERT FITZGERALD'S workmanlike, understated, "Point of Order", cites Agee first for his "Discipline, delicacy, precision, and scruple," and only secondly for his "range of awareness, moral passion, and visualizing power." In its brevity, this paragraph in finale is more pithy than much that precedes...
There was a time in Williams' career when he thought of himself as a disciple of D.H. Lawrence, so it is probably no accident that the opening paragraph of Lady Chatterley's Lover should share some of the mood of Streetcar...