Word: paragraphs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While at Leningrad, Goody plans to give a short course of an advanced nature on some phase of meteorology. This course would involve two lectures a week, translated paragraph by paragraph into Russian as he gives them. He has no definite plans for the rest of his time, but he said he expects the University of Leningrad to do a large part of his scheduling...
Then Kennedy came to a paragraph that would be cited for years to come. "Whatever issue may come before me as President, if I should be elected-on birth control, divorce, censorship, gambling, or any other subject-I will make my decision in accordance with these views, in accordance with what my conscience tells me to be in the national interest, and without regard to outside religious pressure or dictates. And no power or threat of punishment could cause me to decide otherwise. But if the time should ever come-and I do not concede any conflict to be even...
...could you omit the terrible traffic of textbooks in the field of education, the area of lingo-jargon, grammatical error, meaningless repetition of four words (fundamental, needs, experiences, objectives), padded with graphs, charts, tables and diagrams that imply the reader may not comprehend the value of the paragraph, and therefore might catch...
...classic paragraph, McCrea asks his readers to consider a remote part, P, of the universe. "We see no other part of the universe," he says, "in the state in which it influences P. For example, if P is one billion light-years away, and Q is a part of the universe one billion light-years away in the opposite direction, then, if the universe is static, whatever influence Q has on P when we observe P depends on the state of Q at a time two billion years before Q was in the state in which we observe...
...final paragraph of Taylor's reply was the most sensible and sane statement on the whole controversy: "My objection to the art, like the jury comment, is based on the fact that it reflects a declining aesthetic climate. The early 1950's saw the break-through of our native abstract pioneers into fresh realms of feeling; today that movement seems in a cul-de-sac in which imitation and repetition have momentarily taken the place of creative statement. If the art in the Festival has little to say, why blame the Festival because...