Word: paragraphs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Block's "Grandfather" is marred only by a lack of dramatic movement. In a story so short the narrative elements--the sense of times and action--could be sharp and clear. In "Grandfather" these are a little blurred, a little confusing. For example, a paragraph about the "four mysteries surrounding grandfather's life" diverts attention from the funeral procession without really improving the story; the paragraph might have been more effective earlier in the story...
Unusual Customs. It was already too late. As the Six discussed the agenda, runners began trotting into the chamber with bulletins hot from the Telex machines. Paragraph by paragraph, the dismayed delegates followed De Gaulle's lengthy discourse. It became clear that further discussion was pointless...
...Marx's world has become a momentous family feud that threatens to split the world Communist movement. Last week the rift was there for all to see, laid out in plain words in Mao Tse-tung's Red Flag and People's Daily, followed by a paragraph-by-paragraph retort in Khrushchev's Pravda...
...your issue for 19 December, G. Mercator persuasively argues the case for geography as a field of study, and for maps as tools of study. The first paragraph of his contribution, however, describes the present state of the Widener map collection with something less than his usual objectivity. I fear that my old friend (how long it seems since we first met at the Frankfurt book fair!) is becoming a little senile, or perhaps he has been working too late at nights on his Atlas...
...piece has much in common with the Washington fact-fiction novels that are now clogging the bestseller lists. It purports to narrate the secret deliberations of "ExComm"-an abbreviation for the National Security Council Executive Committee that was unknown even to members of the group until it was repeated paragraph after paragraph by Bartlett and Alsop. The Post story is filled with Druryisms and some language that seems to be left over from the magazine's serialization of Fail-Safe. Leaders negotiate "in the shadow of nuclear war" and make "the live-or-die decisions when the chips...