Word: paragraphs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Given this nihilism, this self-loathing that seems the dark side of narcissism, why does Kafka remain, 100 years after his birth, one of the authentic voices of the age? The answer lies in this centenary volume, Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories. His tales, some no more than a paragraph long, have forced their way into the modern consciousness. In The Metamorphosis, Gregor Samsa turns into an insect; in A Hunger Artist, a professional faster starves himself to death "because I couldn't find the food I liked. If I had found it, believe me, I should have made...
...Bretton Woods call as a red herring, the French were looking for at least a U.S. show of respect for their concern about the ill effects of unpredictable currency fluctuations. At the final session, Reagan showed his skill as a mediator by suggesting that debate over a paragraph dealing with protectionism be postponed while other issues were considered. Then, when the seven leaders came to the paragraph Mitterrand wanted on currency stability, Reagan proposed a deal: the French and the Americans would compromise their differences on both protectionism and interest rates and consider the two sections jointly. The package plan...
...Newsweek had backed away from purchasing North American rights to them. TIME inspected the diaries and turned them down, primarily because there was insufficient time to conduct its own investigation into their authenticity. A subheadline on Newsweek's cover asked ARE THEY GENUINE? and the magazine devoted several paragraphs of its story to quoting disbelievers. In advertising for the story in 30-sec. television commercials in twelve cities, however, Newsweek omitted that cautionary line entirely. In full-page ads in six major U.S. newspapers, any doubts the magazine may have had were limited to a question buried...
...Writing and Editing. This includes colorful writing that buries the news in the sixth paragraph. As a colleague of Jones' puts it, if a nuclear accident hit an American city, some writer would begin his story: "Yesterday, Mrs. Minnie Johnson, 72, could not find her little black and gray kitten, Mittens...
...history (and I hope it is not provocative to say that I think of history as an art, not a science). In writing I am seduced by the sound of words and by the interaction of their sound and sense. Recently at the start of a paragraph I wrote, "Then occurred the intervention which irretrievably bent the twig of events." It was intended as a kind of signal to the reader. (Every now and then in a historical narrative, after one has been explaining a rather complicated background, one feels the need of waving a small red flag that says...