Word: paragraphs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...resurrection before believers' eyes are rarely called upon to make good on the promise. Authors ought to be more accountable, though, and when one chooses to title a novel The Second Coming he'd better deliver some sort of a revelation--epiphany if not apocalypse--before the final paragraph. But Walker Percy has years of experience in promising more than he delivers. His style exploits the worst qualities of that discredited category, the Novel of Ideas: he trots out a series of tired, baldly stated rhetorical questions and parades them in masquerade as the personal dilemmas of his characters...
...speech he prepared for that Tuesday-night debate, Kennedy had included a paragraph of praise for Carter. But then he picked up a newspaper and read a comment by Hamilton Jordan, the President's deputy campaign chairman. "We could do it without him," Jordan had said of the campaign, "but it will be easier with him. He doesn't matter so much himself, but his people do." With that, Kennedy toned down his speech to only one mention of Carter, and the result was hardly an endorsement...
...paragraph was especially crafted to weld the old Kennedy passion with that new understanding. It could be the clue to the political theology that he will now follow. Said he: "The commitment I seek is not to outworn views, but to old values that will never wear out. Programs may sometimes become obsolete, but the ideal of fairness always endures. Circumstances may change, but the work of compassion must continue. It is surely correct that we cannot solve problems by throwing money at them; but it is also correct that we dare not throw national problems onto a scrap heap...
...Campus Democrats of America is the "official student wing of the Democratic party." Its press kit teatures a one-paragraph clipping from page 51 of The New York Times of June 3, 1979, the early date at which the CDA decided to endorse President Carter for re-election. There is also a letter with the salutation "Dear fellow Democrats," which points out that one of the organization's seven goals is to "create a win psychology." A memo paid for by the Democratic National Committee mentions proudly that when President Carter called for draft registration, "the CDA immediately...
...Eisen, the bank's senior vice president for marketing, had the document "translated" from federalese into passable English. And then, because he was convinced that no customer would wade through the booklet, Eisen inserted a readership test. In 100 of the 120,000 copies, he placed a special paragraph that read: "Any customer who receives a disclosure that includes this paragraph, can get $10 simply by writing 'regulation' and the customer's name and address." At a cost of $69,000, the bank in May and June sent out the 4,500-word pamphlet on Regulation...