Word: prose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pappy? Unlike most comic artists, Capp seems to attract readers in well-defined layers, each stratum as distinct as the segments of a pousse-café. Not all of them love him-some of the most virulent prose of the last decade has come from outraged Abner readers who have written to complain that he is undermining 1) the U.S. mind, 2) the nation's morals or 3) the Constitution itself...
William B. van Lennep, curator of the Theatre Collection, said that "even his bad prose is better in wit and brilliance than the prose of almost any man writing in English today. That's how good...
...would probably like to be remembered as one for whom literature was only an instrument," Baker added, pointing out that Shaw regarded himself more of a thinker than a writer. "Yet he wrote perhaps the best English prose of his generation...
...jumble of the interstellar and the folksy. Characters who are neither living people nor vivid symbols traffic in blown-up emotions and rouged-up words. Besides being high-pitched and mawkish, Burning Bright is frequently dull. Steinbeck might have done far better with a few people talking simple prose in a suburb, might have remembered that writers best achieve the universal through the particular. Blake, who gave him his title (Tyger, tyger, burning bright) could also have given him a good cue: To see the world in a grain of sand...
...drops him for another beautiful youth who has attracted her by making obscene gestures. Along the sordid route of this story, Williams offers such gems of wisdom as, ". . . beauty was a world of its own whose anarchy had a sort of godly license," and such gems of prose as, "Because you are very young, said Mrs. Stone, and very foolish and very beautiful. And because I am not so very young any more and not so beautiful, but beginning to be very wise...