Famed Yiddish Writer Resting in Anything But Peace
The first nine paragraphs of today’s “Column One” by Hector Becerra are expertly constructed.
Taken as a whole, they perfectly illustrate (in a feature reporting kind of way) the old AP “inverted pyramid” lede principle. That is to say, the reporter sets the scene, draws the reader in and then, thunderously, delivers a wallop.
Becerra describes a recent Sunday visit paid by Robert Adler-Peckerar to Mount Zion, a Jewish cemetery on the outskirts of downtown L.A. The gate was locked; a caretaker next door needed to be summoned.
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