Word: paragraphs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...goes on, is not the same thing as a Russian surrender. Khrushchev has committed himself to refraining from those particular forms of conflict which are most likely to incinerate the globe. The fact that this accomplishment, although limited, is not completely without utility is grudgingly admitted in the last paragraph...
...first paragraph sets the tone for the book, a tone maintained throughout like a good old-fashioned narrative poem: "All the rest of us in our family are dark, but Savata my sister is fair. Now Jesus, did you know, himself was a dark man. They say his hair was like lamb's wool and his feet like polished brass. Thank you Jesus...
Actually the very paragraph in the Redbook from which Mr. Cohen quotes the beginning, ends with this very thought: "The claim of General Education is that the history of science is part of science. So are its philosophy, its great literature, and its social and intellectual context. The contribution of science instruction to the life of the university and to society should include these elements, since science includes them. A science course so constructed as to encompass these elements makes an important contribution to General Education. It need not by that token make a poorer contribution to an education...