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In these circumstance it is not necessary to throw away the 14 preceding paragraphs. They can go somewhere else. What matters most is the lead, and this is true whether one is writing a sermon,-a term paper, a letter to the editor or a newspaper feature. The lead is the lure that hooks the reader swimming by.
Some months ago I vowed to write at least a quarterly column on “the good stuff’ one finds in contemporary writing. Readers have sent me a bale of citations. Let me share a few of them with you.
Florence King, who writes regularly for National Review, turned out a piece in March on the royal family. She confessed her admiration for Prince Charles:
“Most men ditch their dear old Dutch for a trophy wife, but he ditched the trophy wife for his dear old Dutch. No one gives him credit for preferring time-ravaged Camilla Parker-Bowles to firm-fleshed Di, or realizes her value to the state. Plebeianized England needs Queen Camilla: Any
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