Word: paragraphing
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...thumbs through the folder and suddenly suggests: "This might be fun-nobody's done this. You could just do a paragraph on what this week's mail has brought...
...Inevitably, there is a convict rebellion; inevitably, it is suppressed by slaughter, in which Halloran must fire (though he fires high), and he later helps a leader of the rebellion to escape. Inevitably, his girl hangs, and he hangs. It is as economical, as predestined as that. The last paragraph is visible from the first page...
...USIS offices in Europe with G. David Schine, he admits that it might have been unnecessary to remove Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon, but he still implies that John K. Fairbank's commendable classic, The United States and China, is somehow subversive-and quotes a paragraph out of context to prove...
...next paragraph, however, could well have been written today: "Nations are being made and unmade. Young men are the inciters of revolution and the stirrers-up of conflict...
...CLOUD of financial restraint hangs over the entire report. Present Federal aid to education is now geared to developing new "centers of excellence" around the country, and the report seems to assume that the current financial squeeze on established private college is going to get worse. With its final paragraph, the report delivers the coup de grace to the notion that Harvard can be universally excellent: "The Committee recommends that the Faculty concentrate upon a limited number of areas in which it can provide top-quality leadership rather than seek to achieve a full spectrum of appointments in every department...