Word: paragraphs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foreign envoys in the U.S. receive. Especially when he treats several topics in one column, Strout tends either to make bold assumptions with no justification at all, or to give only sketchy proof. For example, he dismisses Eisenhower's refusal to grant clemency to the Rosenbergs in a single paragraph that begins, "The Rosenbergs got a fair trial; they were rightfully condemned; the president rejected their appeal for clemency and they must die." The didactic thought reads nicely--and might be 100 per cent wrong...
...breakthrough came at 10:15 last Thursday morning. Its import was discreetly disguised by the dry language that negotiators use. "In the light of the discussions we have had," said Robert Mugabe, co-leader of the Patriotic Front, "if you are prepared to include [our] forces in paragraph 13 of the British paper, we are able to agree to the interim proposals." Impassively, British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington said that a sentence would be added to the paragraph in question: "The Patriotic Front Forces will be required to comply with the directions of the Governor...
...reason for lack of popularity may be that Gallant rarely leaves helpful signs and messages that readers tend to expect of "literature": This way to the Meaning or This story is about the Folly of Love. She can sum up the postwar history of a social class in a paragraph. She can effortlessly keep three levels of memory working in a seamless narrative. But in the end the stories are simply there-haunting, enigmatic, printed with images as sharp and durable as the edge of a new coin, relentlessly specific. "God protect us from generalizations," said Chekhov, the writer whose...
...dark haired woman says. She passes out three forms, one for the American Sky Jumpers Association, one for the Taunton Sport Parachuting Center, and one for the sake of everyone but the sky jumper and his family, in case of the most unfortunate incident. The latter is an eight paragraph, single sentence document freeing the center, its employees, their relatives, the town of Taunton, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from any responsibilities, financial obligations or guilt in the event of "the quickest fall...
...devoted Princetonian, I left Tiger country for the pseudo-city of bahstahn to attend the Hahvahd-Princeton football game. Having bought the Harvard Crimson, I read your article about "machines", although I felt that the article should not really begin until the fifth paragraph where you tell the story of Princeton pockets...