Word: prose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lend authority to his iconoclasm, Robbins has collected quotations from Eliot's poetry and prose; and though these do not fully substantiate his claims, nevertheless they emphasize some of the seedier aspects of a poet too often accepted without reservation by readers who know the name...
...appeared in magazines prior to publication as volumes. But they are as different as the two cities they deal with. Where White was soft, Algren is hard; where the former wrote quietly, lightly, and as a New Yorker, Algren speaks loudly and unhappily, and beneath his smooth flow of prose there is violent opinion...
Washington won a seat in Virginia's House of Burgesses, but he had little gift for shining. He was a poor speaker and slow in debate; his prose was clubfooted. But he was a solid man whose word was respected. When New England patriots began to roar about the British Stamp Act, he urged caution. He hoped for a compromise even after the fighting began -and he was man enough to admit his original doubts later, after he saw that the revolution would have to be fought...
...only a doctor's interest in the disease. In 40 years of practice, he was never able to free his mind entirely for "serious art." But between calls (1,500,000 of them, he estimates), he did somehow manage to produce 34 uneven books of verse and prose that have given him a reputation out of all proportion to their sales...
Moses has one major flaw. By page 505, the waxy, unctuous prose with which Novelist Asch has Simonized the King James version will leave many an eye glazed, not with sanctity but with sleep...