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Falling asleep again, as he must do every night, no matter how he postpones it, Senior dreams of his typist, a nimble lass who will probably leave out a paragraph or forget the carbon. Or, worst of all, he tosses with the dream of the Great Confrontation, the dream where he passes through life talking to friends, making love, delivering speeches, always searching in vain for the appropriate quote from his intensive study of the complete works of Hamlin Garland...
...Timely, frank, comprehensive and, as usual, well written. Here at "old Veri-tas," girls came whooping out of their rooms, waving the new TIME, happily quoting Durant and your concluding paragraph. JOAN MARTIN Radcliffe '66 Cambridge, Mass...
...what bothered Rocky was a paragraph that Goldwater never uttered, although it got wide play as part of his released text: "We are told that many people lack skills and cannot find jobs because they did not have an education. That's like saying that people have big feet because they wear big shoes. The fact is that most people who have no skill have had no education for the same reason-low intelligence or low ambition." Later, in North Carolina, Goldwater said that Johnson's anti-poverty program is "an attempt to divide Americans...
...first draft should go as fast as the writer can think, said Lambuth. "Snail-pace writing never catches up with spontaneity-which is one of the greatest of the literary virtues." But rewriting is crucial-for example, to strengthen the beginning and the ending of each sentence, paragraph and the larger whole. Especially the endings: "What we hear last is usually the most vivid to us." Avoid grammatical fussiness: "In certain cases a preposition is the most emphatic word to end a sentence with." But worry about words: "There is rarely more than one right word to express an idea...
Tillich's theology depends on the use of ontological analysis, a method of philosohical inquiry into the fundamental nurture of being. This assumes to show no sensitivity to criticism. In an eight-line paragraph his most recent book, Morality and Beyond, summarily dismisses objections raised by analytical philosophy, "pure" pragmatism, "pure" existentialism (pure is not defined in either case) and value theories in psychology. Tillich thinks they all suffer from the demoniac malaise of our times, "self-sufficient finitude," or the "denial of the immanence of the infinite (God) in the finite...