European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 12, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Paga in column the stars and stripes monday october 12,1987 today s crossword read your copy read your copy by James 3. Kilpatrick Jack Kerouac novelist or the real generation once told an interviewer that he never edited his copy at All. His lint draft was Hij last draft. Informed of this curious process Truman capote was not impressed. That in t writing he sniffed. That s i am developing a melancholy conviction that a whole generation of Kero aes has grown up. How cite is one id Plain the mangled sentences that wind up in print a clipping comes to hand the newspaper is no identified that tells of the wedding of a Young lady named Lori to a Young gentleman named Charles. The Bride is a 1983 graduate of Westlake High school where she resided Tor 15 somehow that scarcely seems Likely. The associated press in August told us about Minnesota twins Pitcher Joe Niekro. He was ejected Tor doctoring baseball in the fourth the old knuckle Bailer equipped with Emery Board and Sand paper evidently had been doctoring balls All along. In Mcminnville ore., the new Register published several letters dealing with homosexuality. It became evident in late july that related to his Exchange of letters was a growing moral concern about homosexual Ity among members of the Yamhill county Republican Central let us get our prepositional phrases in the right place will read clarity and read it again for the sense of what you Are trying to say. The Bergen news gave us a baffling observation on education in new Jersey the course governor can has embarked on is one that his predecessor must backward turn backward 0 time in your flight a staff writer for the Cleveland Plain dealer came up with a no Cigar Choice of words Mueller batted about theories Why his wife of eight Yean would leave two jobs and a marriage he described As close but no Cigar. The writer wanted Huntington . A staffer for the Herald Dij Patch reported a concert by Marie Osmond she mag Niff cd a crowd of close to 600 it is the prerogative of reporters Parade sponsors and. Friends of the artist to magnify a crowd. Osmond s Forte is to Magnet ize an audience. An a reporter nodded Over a Story about Salvagin relics from the titanic no explanation has been Given on How investors in the expedition Wilt recuperate the $2.5 million Cost of the that was t the verb he wanted. N Canton Ohio a councilwoman proposed that local firefighters be charged with capturing skunks Rac Coons squirrels and opossums that arc bothering local residents. The proposal was not enthusiastically received. Rescuing Pels from Trees Over the years Al ready has caused adversity from some careful copy editing would have eliminated the erring adversity and found something else. Headline in the Wenatchee Wash daily world baby stolen from slain Mother s that in t even a no Cigar. That s an anatomical impossibility. In the Las vegas Sun a columnist wandered from his Iheme. But i diverse he said. Kind of reminds me of car anode Bergerac who composed poems As Hedu eled at the end of diverse he lunged. A writer for the Washington Post interviewed Chan Sadat everything about this moslem Middle Eastern woman seems close but no Cigar. We May have a luxuriant growth of hair or we May observe luxuriant foliage but in the context of a paragraph about Pale Silver and glittering jewels luxurious probably was the. Word he was seeking. A in scr for he Portland Oregon Lan wanted to say something kind about the late Malcolm Baldrige he was known for his warmth cordiality and Lor hit willingness to Lake on shibboleths within the adminis a Shibboleth is a trite saying or slogan a kind of catchword. Maybe that was what the writer in tended but Shibboleth is an unfamiliar word adhere it seemed out of place. Equally puzzling is the description in an advertise ment of Cherry pop. It i a quiescent by Frozen i ask you what in the Devil does that mean prom Indianapolis comes a complaint about the us of very As a Universal inlets Ifica. I am in favor of doing away with very altogether it weakens rather than strengthens whatever Point you Are trying to Mike. In fact it is very Washington d.c., comes a similar objection. I am rather tired of rather and i Don t mean Dan my correspondent enclosed a clipping of recent review of a biography of William Faulkner the critic found it rather difficult to Sec Why Oats chose to write a life of in a preface he rather lamely asserts that he has attempted to write a pure biography for the general Reader and rather Immo deftly would t it have been belter my correspondent asks to have found the biographer s task difficult in Stead of rather difficult should t we lamely assert and immodesty claim Why dilute honest opinion with tepid qualifiers the late be. White would have said amen to All that in the final chapter of the elements of style while warned against the use of such words As rather very Little and pretty. These Are the leeches that infest the Pond of prose sucking the blood of there Are limes of course when judgment demands a qualifier but such occasions arc few. If Yoa habitually use rather and very try striking them out of your copy. From Manhattan kan., comes one More outcry against try and instead of try columnist Ellen Goodman talking of gardens had written in an inattentive moment that we try and work one Small piece of the universe to our own exact the Portland oceanian asserted that Modem Landfill dumps Are Safe and sanitary. That s the message state depart ment of environmental Quality officials will try and carry to neighbors of three proposed dump Sites a gentleman in los Angeles has a Peeve that Man readers share. 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