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DELAWARE 35, PRINCETON 3: Delaware is ranked number one in the nation in the Division 7-AA classification. Delaware beat Temple last weekend. Temple plays Georgia this year. Notice that Princeton isn't a major part of this paragraph...
...fill the air. Corées and Montezuma are holding hands; from time to time one of them disengages a hand to brush away a fly." No byline is needed; the spooky confluence of matter-of-fact observation (those green flies) and dreamlike lunacy (the handholding strollers) identify the paragraph as Barthelme...
...Atlanta captured the press's attention because some killings seemed the work of a demonic psycho. The killings were awful; the concern is real, but the news interest has been exploited. Every violent death of a black child in Atlanta-the kind that wouldn't rate a paragraph nationwide had it happened that day in Memphis or Birmingham-is piled on to the city's total (25! 26! 27!) by a press prone to declare and then contribute to "a climate of fear." It may be a kind of retribution that the press now finds itself involved...
...telephoned several military installations-including Tinker Air Force Base near Oklahoma City, which supervises the maintenance of the President's plane, Air Force One-asking how to get on the "approved" list of contractors. He followed up the call with a letter that said in its second paragraph...
Writing for the president was different then, Goodwin says. You were in on everything, went to the cabinet meetings and to the National Security Council meetings, helped make the decisions. Once, a speechwriter could bring an issue to the president's attention simply by including a paragraph on the issue in a draft. You didn't always get your way, of course; sometimes you had to write things you didn't agree with. But you were a part of the dynamic, you had a voice, you were chosen because the president trusted you to have a voice. Now, he says...