Word: prose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...states elect some or all of their delegates in primaries. In only two (Minnesota, Ohio) does the ballot clearly show which presidential candidate each prospective delegate favors. In others, the voter either sees no indication on the ballot or is confronted with some more or less vague bit of prose. In Oregon, where the candidate for delegate may have a twelve-word slogan after his name on the ballot, one 1948 aspirant offered the voter this guidance: "You may have full confidence I will do my duty as delegate...
Ghost and Flesh, by 34-year-old William Goyen of Texas, is a collection of eight wispy stories of the haunted-South school. All the stories are gracefully written, and some of them break into prose poetry reminiscent of Thomas Wolfe. But they create a mood rather than people. Author Goyen writes chiefly about loneliness. "The world," he says, "is too big; we lose people in it." Wandering through the lyrical pages of Ghost and Flesh is a variety of lost and lonely souls, including such town oddities as "Old Mrs. Woman," whom nobody loved because...
...Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh set some of the sharpest prose in the modern theater against some of the greatest poetry of all time when they opened in the two plays...
...speeches show no ghost-writer's influence with the Secretary at his best when speaking extemporaneously. In this category is his talk to the Society of Newspaper Editors shortly after McCarthy began his antics. These few pages of Acheson's prose are the most effective defense yet offered for his Department against the patriotic character assassins of today...
Tabbed Byline, the new magazine was put out by the Radcliffe News. It contains 36 pages of prose and poetry written by undergraduates at the Annex...