Word: paragraphing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gabler arrived at the hearings with two aides from her nonprofit Educational Research Analysts organization and 600 pages of detailed objections to publishers' offerings. In a fourth-grade text by McDougal, Littell & Co., the Gablers objected to a paragraph listing beneficial qualities of drugs like insulin for diabetes on the grounds that such information "is instilling in student minds that the term drugs refers to a beneficial product." In a junior high health text by Ginn & Co., the Gablers took exception to a chapter titled "When Things go Wrong." Their demand: a positive chapter called "When Things Go Right...
Understandably, few could wish the bonny babe ill. Even France's Communist paper L'Humanite ended its three-paragraph story with the inaccurate but well-meaning comment: "God save the next little King." Indeed, as the London Times headlined one story, IN ITS SMALL PERSON ALL OUR TRIBAL HISTORY. Commentators were quick to point out that the Prince will come of age in the year 2000, which will make him a young man of the 21st century. Thus, they noted, he should be widely and democratically traveled, fluent in at least one or two foreign languages, and more...
...paragraph 9 of your story, there is a sentence that may be misleading to your readers: "Nothing that students are expected to pay back $15 in aid for every $1 they are given, he (the president of Suffolk University) portrayed the dire economic burden of debt...
Hersh claimed we now have a "presidency by kitchen cabinet," adding that major foreign policy issues are being compressed by Reagan's aids into paragraph form so that the President can understand them...
...past the author has strained to pack too many ironic asides to the paragraph. In Nobody's Angel he allows some breathing space between wordplay. Unfortunately, a powerful sense of place and character is not sufficient to sustain an entire novel. The hero's sentimental nihilism and unfulfilled longings undo the hard work that has gone before, and the final epiphany-the revelation that there is no revelation-is too dim to illuminate Nobody's Angel. McGuane has not so much made the Old West new as buried many of the romantic myths under a modern veneer...