It is unfortunate that the editor could not have taught Mr. Enright to make paragraphs of more than two sentences. Does that show the weakness of the approach?

It is unfortunate that the editor could not have taught Mr. Enright to make paragraphs of more than two sentences. Does that show the weakness of the approach? The editor might also have taught Mr. Enright to spell "Hardwick" correctly. That might have been more useful than giving him grief for going to lunch. The problem with citing Edmund Wilson is that Wilson a) did not think his job done when he came up with the title, but rather made a cogent case in the essay, and b) did not focus on Agatha Christie, but wrote about what he saw lacking in mystery novels generally. Reducing this to the headline is the sort of thing that leads young programmers to remember Dijkstra for his zingers, and think of him as an insult comic. Wilson could be caustic enough, but he gave reasons for his criticisms.