Word: paragraphing
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...fourth paragraph of a long Associated Press dispatch on the weekend's events, it was learned: "The demonstration had the official blessing of the North Vietnamese government...
...became so desperate at this news," one paragraph read, "that I decided to try the hot water and turpentine method someone had told me about. We poured one-half gallon of turpentine in a pail and added scalding water over this. Priscilla sat on the paid and I wrapped a blanket around her. The fumes were supposed to make her abort. This was done three times a day for three days. The only thing that happened was that I burnt her bottom...
...THAT perceptive paragraph is nearlly the full text of a letter that we got last week from Betsy Tremont, a U.S. Government employee in Teheran. Reader Tremont had spotted a change in the style of our Milestones section. Since the section appeared in the first issue of TIME in 1923, each milestone has usually followed a form fairly described in the reader's letter. In the Sept. 29 issue, we changed the general style. Now a milestone takes a less restricted form, is more like a little story. Reader Tremont doesn't like the new style...
...better question is: Why did Norman Mailer write this book? Even better: Why did Putnam publish it? Never once does Mailer comment on the war n Vietnam. Even the name Vietnam is mentioned only twice in the book, and then in the final paragraph...
...than politics: with Swiftian anger, he condemns the victim as well as the tyrant. As a writer, however, he is no Swift. The novel is at times clumsy and dated: conversations are imagined by the narrator, glances between characters are supposed to be significant enough to stand for a paragraph or so of exposition, flashbacks fly off like the calendar pages in an old movie. But contrivances do not obscure Mnacko's conclusion: "We're all really cavemen, squabbling over bigger or smaller chunks of meat...