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...with wisdom or wit. "The paragraph is an uncompromising medium," says Vaughan. "In 25 or 30 words you have to say something wise or funny, with no chance to pad it out or conceal the lack of point. Also, the paragraph presupposes some information on the part of the reader. The paragrapher can't explain what he's talking about or he has drowned his effect." Paragrapher Vaughan does not often drown his effect. Samples...
Having been a life-long reader of the Saturday Evening Post and other Curtis Publications, I was most disturbed to read in the Dec. 15 issue of TIME that "Philadelphia's proud old publishing company is available." If you had been as thorough in your fact-finding as I have been in mine, you would have found that Mrs. Zimbalist's holdings constitute 3.2% of the outstanding stock, not the 32% you quote...
...born in little (pop. about 2.000) Greenwich, N.Y., one of a family of ten. She never went beyond the "sixth reader" in school; instead, at the age of twelve, she left home to become a hired girl. It was, she later recalled with her unshatterable cheeriness, "a grand education for me in cooking, housekeeping, in moralizing and mingling with the outside world." One day, when she was 26. she met a tall, blue-eyed Hoosick Falls hired man named Tom Moses. "Howda," she said, and with that her courtship began...
...Arrivals. This reluctance of Schwartz-a poet, critic and onetime Partisan Review editor-and other writers of his sort to let things happen on the page, more or less in view.of the reader, means that their fiction lacks the sense of journey-and-arrival that, even if it is only a movement from one mood to another, distinguishes a story from a prose painting or a personal essay. Most of the stories in this book are plotless. Some are mere parables, the ironies of which do not make up for the anemia of the telling. A somewhat giddy heartiness about...
...last story begins promisingly-a Negro foundling is placed on the doorstep of a prominent white parson who has six children, nine bathrooms, liberal views and a carnivorous wife. The reader is encouraged, feeling that from such a start Schwartz cannot fail to arrive somewhere. For a while this optimism is justified; idealism, hypocrisy and natural family contentiousness roil before one's very eyes, and the parson's eldest daughter, horrified to see her parents act like racists, dashes off to college with the baby...