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...second, even more fundamental problem, is the style of news writing itself. The standard, accepted style is to organize the news in a sensationalistic pyramid--facts starting out with the most dramatic and organized in descending order. Reston points out that, although this is advisable in murder stories, it has a distorting effect on foreign policy reporting...
What is needed, then, is a new format. For the pyramid style, Reston would substitute a "case study outline" that starts with an unbiased statement of the relevant facts. The facts are followed by a series of "definitions" of alternative courses of action which the government might follow, along with arguments for and against each policy. The advantage of this format, according to Reston, is that it allows people to make a choice instead of simply receiving a deluge of facts, both important and trivial...
...reason culminated in the Middle Ages. Although they acknowledged that God was ultimately unknowable, the medieval scholastics devoted page after learned page of their summas to discussions of the divine attributes?his omnipotence, immutability, perfection, eternity. Although infinitely above men, God was seen as the apex of a great pyramid of being that extended downward to the tiniest stone, the ultimate ruler of an ordered cosmos cooperatively governed by Christian church and Christian state...
...came on like the aurora borealis. Red, white and blue spotlights played across the stage. The 18-piece orchestra, strung out like a chorus line in electric-purple tuxedos, swayed and screeched bloody murder. Girls in pink leotards gyrated madly on a pyramid of fluorescent yellow platforms. The Famous Flames danced and cried, "Hup, hup"; the Fabulous Jewels chanted, "He's so groovy, he's so groovy." And there, right in the middle of it all, was "Mr. Dynamite" himself, James Brown...
...second point is that the old Peking rulers were the custodians and propagators of a true teaching, the Confucian classical doctrines of social order, an orthodoxy which told every man how to behave in his proper place and kept the social pyramid intact with the emperor on top. The emperor was himself the high priest of a cult of social order. The three main bonds of the Confucian social order were the filial piety of children to their superior parents, the admirable devotion of wives to their superior husbands, the loyalty of scholar officials to their superior the emperor. This...