Word: prose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Writers who want to work for radio & TV got advice from an expert this week. In the Writer, voluble Norman Corwin, who has turned out a spate of purple-prose documentaries for radio, offered a two-word prescription for success: "Be mediocre...
...leave his family. But his wife and children clamorously reminded him of all the good times they had had together, and the 30-minute show ended with everyone misty-eyed and agreeing that money can't buy happiness. Sentiments like these, flowering in Faith Baldwin's prose, have earned her a place in Connecticut with a 22-room house and a pool. But she sometimes broods because critics label her Pollyanna. "The reason my stories always end happily is because the magazines prefer happy endings," she explains. Actually, she argues, her plots often have a high tragic content...
...from Shakespeare's rack, British Novelist Rumer Godden has cooked up a fresh batch of literature in it. As readers of her earlier novels (Black Narcissus, A Candle for St. Jude) may expect, the Godden brew is not much more than cambric tea, and though its prose has a refreshing bouquet and its flavor of idyl is cut by lemon slices of irony, the book is still a Tempest in a teapot. Author Godden gracefully recognizes the fact by calling her novel not a Tempest but A Breath...
Occasionally Joyner's smooth prose breaks down; his sentences become awkward and his writing intrudes into the description...
...craftsmen in this modest vein is 32-year-old, Sussex-born P. H. (for Percy Howard) Newby, who is little known in the U.S., but highly regarded at home. His new novel, The Young May Moon, is so neatly constructed and so quietly effective in the flow of its prose that until the very end it seems more substantial than it actually...