Word: prose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began fading back again into the shadows. This week he visited Little Rock, Ark., where he was born 72 years ago while his father, Arthur MacArthur, was in command of the old Army arsenal. Obviously caught in the sentiment of the occasion, Douglas MacArthur, in fine, old-fashioned prose, deliberately stressed his heaviest political liability: his age. "For me," he said, in what proved to be a thoroughly nonpolitical speech, "the shadows are deepening. I left Little Rock long, long years ago when life was simpler and gentler. The world has turned over many times since then, and those years...
...seeming to act. "Every movement of the body, even the turning of the pages, becomes important," explains Laughton. "You mustn't move, except for a startling effect." As the tempo increases, an actor will slip from his stool and move to center stage in time for his big prose "aria." As theater-wise Director Jed Harris pointed out: "By appearing to read, but actually knowing their parts by heart, they make the whole thing come alive. In a theatrical production, the power of illusion would be much more difficult." Playwright J. B. Priestley, who saw the show in Brooklyn...
...story of the sufferings of the English landowner whose son is killed, there is little relief to be found in the plot. In the novel this pathos is not oppressive because it is tinged with lyricism. The poignance of the story is enhanced and purified by the beautiful rolling prose in which it is written...
...before the reader the thoughts of a perceptive, sensitive young boy, contrasting his shock and loneliness at the death of a beloved aunt with his uneasiness during the empty social proprieties of her funeral and his sense of disgust at the bickering over her will. Chace's beautifully proportioned prose flows smoothly, at times almost rhythmically. He seems most at home describing nature. In the scene where young Michael sneaks out the door of the cemetery chapel, the lingering description of the countryside is like a breath of fresh...
Punch invited him to join its staff on the strength of his light verse. He gave it in closely reasoned prose a famous course of law called "Misleading Cases," intended to make the English understand their danger among the imbecilities of English law. This made the English laugh and gave Herbert his reputation as a humorist. He himself was too surprised even to laff...