Word: paragraphs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arrangement of the book suggests that Doctorow is not altogether happy with the stories. The first, an agreeable family anecdote about a secret kept from an old lady in a nursing home, could be told as a one-paragraph joke. But the third is a small marvel, a conventional short story that works, and the only one of the six whose vibrations resonate after the last page is turned. A boy sees his mother making love with his tutor. The child cannot prevent himself from telling the dreadful secret to his father. The narrator, who was the boy, relates...
...Kahan, which concluded that Sharon as well as other Israeli officials bore "indirect" responsibility for the massacre. Sharon subsequently stepped down as Defense Minister, though he remained in the Cabinet and is now Israel's Minister of Industry and Trade. Sharon's suit is aimed at a paragraph in the story describing a condolence call Sharon paid to the Gemayel family the day after the assassination of the Lebanese President-elect. The passage, based on Halevy's reporting, stated that Sharon "reportedly discussed with the Gemayels the need for the Phalangists to take revenge" for Bashir...
...such a grossly erroneous statement. If we are representative of Native Americans nationwide, then why are there only eighteen of us out of 5600 people in the college? Yes, it would be nice if everyone's father, like that of Yvette D. Roubideaux '85 as described in the same paragraph, could be the first Indian lawyer for the state of South Dakota This, however, is not the case. Michael P. Tsosie and I expressly told Caron that we are a fortunate few who have had the economic and educational opportunities to bring us to Harvard. The majority of Native American...
...Occasionally, though, these dutiful expressions of gratitude can yield useful information about the works they precede. This first full-length biography of T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) is a case in point. After acknowledging away for nearly two pages, Peter Ackroyd, an English critic and poet, concludes with a terse paragraph: "I am forbidden by the Eliot estate to quote from Eliot's published work, except for purposes of fair comment in a critical context, or to quote from Eliot's unpublished work or correspondence...
...about the Phalangists' violent reputation, including Israeli Lieut. General Rafael Eitan's statement to the Israeli Cabinet before the massacre that the militiamen would enter the camps and "have just one thing left to do, and that is revenge." As for the proper interpretation of the disputed paragraph, Barr said he would leave it up to the jury to determine that "TIME didn't try to imply something it didn...