Word: paragraphing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...book does not rest on what she tells but on her miraculous ability to tell it | ludicrously. She seems to emulate a process she admiringly ascribes to Dr. Christian: "to ruminate some particularly knotty concept into smooth mental paste." Hence the cascade of cliches, many per page and even paragraph. An adviser tells the President: "It's a hot potato, none hotter. We may be biting off more than we can chew." The "cool lustrous brain" of Judith Carriol manifests itself dimly: "The less people involved, the better," or, "If there is any reason in the world...
Indeed, there is perhaps no more humbling experience in the world than taking one's first comp piece to his adviser. Line by line, paragraph by paragraph, the writer is emasculated. The most one can hope for is a kind "This stinks," or some other system pathetic comment which does the job in one fell blow. Unfortunately, most compers are subjected to the slow method, slieing along word by word, phrase by phrase, with comments like "Oh, I don't know about this adjective," or "Have you ever really seen nuns wrestle...
Regarding the April 3 article "Every Town is Our Town," it is format to see that he still has none of the "mutual respect" he so piously mentions in his last paragraph. I refer, of course, to his line in the next-to-last paragraph that "they like to assure me that all of us here at Harvard are born-and-bred snobs just as they assume that we all live on Beacon Hill and who prepped at Andover and Exeter." Mr. Wurf is implying that all those who live on Beacon Hill and who prepped at Andover and Exeter...
Along the way, Spock became the first of the anti-expert experts. His own best seller on child care cautions mothers to take even his tips with several grains of salt. In all editions, the first paragraph of the book begins, "You know more than you think you do," and the next paragraph says, "Don't be overawed by what the experts say. Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense." A friendly and homey prose style, at once humble and authoritative, has convinced millions of mothers that he is an author who can be trusted...
...this same page of "Cheap Shots" The Salient' printed another paragraph which questioned the necessity and validity having the GLSA office phone number in the front of the Harvard-Radcliffe Student Telephone Directory. The ignorance and lack of understanding of the needs of approximates proximately 10 percent of the Harvard community displayed in this instance are absolutely astounding...