Word: prose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spent a lifetime improving cities and hating city planners, reforming sectors of government and detesting governmental reformers. This week he expressed a minority personal opinion of Estes Kefauver and his Senate Crime Investigating Committee: "the greatest minstrel show on earth," Moses called them. Switching on his freewheeling prose style, Moses said...
Anyone expecting a crime of passion at this point reckons without the glacial restraint of modern British novelists. Author William Sansom muzzles the tiger in the blood in order to muster a conversational mouse in the drawing room. In The Face of Innocence, the crisp, angled light of his prose gives the mouse an exaggerated shadow. So does his main theme: that things are rarely what they seem...
Opening the Tuesday evening session, John Crows Ransom, editor of the Kenyon Review and visiting Summer School professor, discussed the relationship of the works of Matthew Arnold to recent work in criticism. Ransom stressed the error of destroying poetry in attempting to reduce it by analysis into its prose equivalent...
...Thurber's work, which comprises 17 volumes of prose and pictures, Nobel Prizeman T. S. Eliot said last year: "It is a form of humor which is also a way of saying something serious. There is a criticism of life at the bottom of it. It is serious and even somber. Unlike so much humor, it is not merely a criticism of manners-that is, of the superficial aspects of society at a given moment-but something more profound. His writings and also his illustrations are capable of surviving the immediate environment and time out of which they spring...
Last week, when Hébert's pieces came out, the States offered the series free to others. The Associated Press and International News Service picked up the Congressman's irradiated prose. Sample quote: "I had a feeling that I was standing at the gates of hell looking into eternity . . . Space was annihilated . . . You feel so pitifully helpless." The United Press passed up Hebert for its own eyewitnesser by Illinois Representative Melvin Price, onetime East St. Louis (Ill.) Journal sportwriter, whose prose was pallid by comparison: "It seemed my eyes would be strained...