Word: paragraphing
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Gaining speed with every paragraph, it further relates how President Millard Fillmore was captivated by the contraption after sloshing around in it on a stumping tour, and, despite adverse public opinion, had a similar tub installed in the White House in 1851. Although there is not a word of truth in the whole account, and Mencken has confessed his amiable duplicity repeatedly, connoisseurs of historical anecdote have been snapping it up for 30 years. It is doubtful, however, that any of them ever seized on it as tenaciously as President Harry Truman...
...enter and leave too abruptly and because the lack of adequate transitions between the thoughts of different characters often creates confusion. Chace is at his best when he records the impressions of Michael saying goodbye to his brother and of old, sick Mandy fighting against her solitude. One italicised paragraph of her meditations, however, is either a halucination or a prediction--at best, incongruous...
...only those aspects of the treaties that lie within what he said was its proper sphere, i.e., protection of states' rights within the new Federal Republic. A resentful Bundesrat, after a mere 15 minutes' debate, voted unanimously to ignore his appeal, and to debate the entire treaties, paragraph by paragraph. Moreover, it declared, it could not possibly discuss either treaty until the Federal Constitutional Court hands down a decision on the constitutionality of German rearmament-a decision not expected for at least three months...
...Street in New York. From there, after an editor has read them with reverent care, the syndicate will siphon the column by airmail and telegraph into prominent papers in Bombay and Des Moines and Dallas and Copenhagen and Halifax. If a comma is misplaced or a paragraph mangled, the editor may hear from Mr. Lippmann. In a couple of hundred newspapers, anxious readers will find in Mr. Lippmann's opinions the balm of certainty...
...rest of the writing in the new book ranges from the competent to the very bad. Some sort of award for ingenuity, at least, should go to the creator of the following paragraph in the section on freshmen...