As it was, most of the reviews did an about face in the second paragraph and grudgingly allowed that Lebrecht's book had some merit.
I loved your article that mentioned the Sailor Circus in Sarasota, Fla .["Run Away With 'The Circus' Here". Oct. 9], I was one of those kids you wrote about in the first paragraph, and can honestly say it was one of the greatest moments of my young life.
I was at Outside magazine and suggested that his lede on a piece about Key West was really the second paragraph and that the first paragraph should be the kicker.
For example, the second paragraph (33 43) about Telemachus, in which Ulysses muses again about domestic life, is a "revised version [of lines 1 5] for public consumption": a "savage race" is revised to a "rugged people".
For example, the second paragraph begins: 'On or about July 28 , 1961 about 6 45 P.M., an observation was made covering a Pontiac automobile owned by one Joseph Garry.' But the presumed investigator who may have been 'covering' this automobile is in no way identified.
Though the endorsement begins by acknowledging Mr. Romney's Utah and Salt Lake Olympics bona fides — "Romney managed to save the state from ignominy, turning the extravaganza into a showcase for the matchless landscapes, volunteerism and efficiency that told the world what is best and most beautiful about Utah and its people," reads the second paragraph — the tone quickly changes.
The second paragraph is about the implications of the story.
"We're on about the fifth paragraph of the obituary," said one of the program's leading critics, Representative Sherwood Boehlert, Republican of upstate New York.
And while I know you only asked about the first paragraph, I'd want to remind them -- probably toward the end -- that none of us can do much that matters in the world without the support of our families, friends, colleagues, and partners.
The second paragraph provides further details about the computation of the p-values that are involved in the scoring function.
