Word: prose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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HILAIRE BELLOC: AN ANTHOLOGY OF HIS PROSE & VERSE (283 pp.)-Selected by W. N. Roughead-Lippincoft...
Like most coaches, Ralph "Cooney" Weiland keeps a heavy damper on public displays of optimism. He's friendly, and definitely not prose to tear-shedding, but he doesn't generally "rave" about things, especially those things which concern his Crimson hockey team...
Archeologist, British intelligence officer, combat-wise leader of Arab guerrillas during World War I, brilliant theoretician of war, master of English prose-all these, and more, was T. E. Lawrence...
...thought nothing of walking from Paris to Lucerne with Leaves of Grass and a Great Dane. He joined the Paris circle of Gertrude Stein ("There was an eternal quality about her"), and later portrayed her as a modern Buddha; in return, Gertrude made "a portrait of me in prose. When she read it aloud, I thought it was wonderful . . . But when I tried to read it . . . to some friends, or for that matter to myself, it didn't make very much sense...
Robbins stresses the paucity of Eliot's poetic output since 1930 and arrives at the conclusion that "It is time to ask whether his intransigeant religious and political opinions have not obtruded so much into his poetry, his drama, and his prose, that Eliot should perhaps no longer be considered a man of letters, but a propagandist...