Word: paragraphing
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...opening paragraph of their constitution defines the anarchists' reason for being as follows: "By nature man is a mythic designer, a shaper of energy. He molds the world after his imagination, because he is bound by no particular concept of his own potential. But throughout history man has been tricked into ignoring this power...
...have gained with it last week, however, was not quite enough to endanger his underdog status. The Vice President remained an astonishingly inconsistent campaigner. At times on the stump he could be inspiring and almost pithy-a quality at odds with his loquacious nature. Then, in the next paragraph, he could sound again like a political calliope, cliches ablast. "Government of the people, for the people and by the people," he told one audience, "is as American as apple...
...paragraph for mistakes, squeezed into the loops. Hunter's camera is still a touch self-conscious. Too many zoom shots from point of view. Some angles which scream Staged, viz. shooting a collapse from behind a sofa so that suddenly the subject drops from sight. Some over-cute editorializing: Emilie walking beneath a marquee which proclaims "Thoroughly Modern Millie"; Elizabeth walking beneath a traffic sign which reads Playground. Hardly worth getting upset about...
...Education and Welfare, the Observer published a decidedly embarrassing report on the Johnson appointee. Dr. James H. McCrocklin, the paper said, had won his doctoral degree with a dissertation almost identical to a master's thesis submitted by his wife a year earlier. The Observer not only gave paragraph-for-paragraph proof of its contention but also revealed that McCrocklin had sat on the three-man faculty panel that approved his wife's paper...
...critical issues of civil rights, inflation or war, although ultimately its effect on them is immeasurable. Nor does the passage involve the two "pops" for which reformers have been crusading in recent months: popular nationwide primaries and popular tax-supported campaign financing. It concerns instead the 59-word paragraph in Article 2 of the Constitution that establishes the Electoral College as the mechanism for choosing a President. In the 180 years since ratification, more than 500 proposals have been advanced in Congress for abolishing or altering the College. Forty reform amendments are currently before the House Judiciary Committee, and debate...