Word: paragraphing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said, "the new approach, demands new and strong laws that will give the peace forces new muscle to deal with the criminal forces in the United States." This, presumably, was the ultimate Republican summation of the campaign. There was no listing of G.O.P. accomplishments, save for one brief paragraph about Viet Nam. There was no expression of positive goals or ideals, no echo of the occasional eloquence or dedication to reform that adorned Nixon's 1968 statements (see "What Nixon Might Have Said," page...
Surely no two phenomena could be more incompatible-in the abstract. The abstract being that two-dimensional landscape of rhetoric and copulative verbs that permits such phantasmagoria as the preceding paragraph. Bitter tears, dear reader, on my copy of What Is Cinema? Open City, Voyage to Italy, General Della Rovere, and now The Rise of Louis XIV: there is something in the anonymity of Rossellim's aesthetic, beyond abstraction or mere being, which resists the a priori...
...mentor, Mr. Chomsky, whom he faithfully copies in this regard-from quoting this phrase so completely out of context so as to make it imply the exact opposite of what I said. The quoted phrase appears in an article entitled "The Bases of Accommodation" and the complete paragraph in which it appears is as follows...
...paragraph preceding the excerpt in question reads as follows: "In an absent-minded way the United States in Viet Nam may well have stumbled upon the answer to 'wars of national liberation.' The effective response lies neither in the quest for conventional military victory nor in the esoteric doctrines and gimmicks of counter-insurgency warfare. It is instead forced-draft urbanization and modernization which rapidly brings the country in question out of the phase in which a rural revolutionary movement can hope to generate sufficient strength to come to power...
...October 1, 1970, issue of the Harvard CRIMSON carried on its front page an article by Mr. David Landau headlined "Affiliated Hospitals Center Changes Site in Roxbury." The second paragraph of that article stated "The AHC . . . decided last July to alter its construction plans in such a way that it will probably take the land under all 182 housing units-instead of 60, as had been anticipated...