Word: prose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deal with French Admiral Jean Darlan, later commanded the Fifth Army in its long, bitter fight up the Italian peninsula. This week, as it must to all generals (it seems), publication day came to Four-Star General Mark Clark, now Chief of the Army Field Forces. In readable, relaxed prose, Clark's Calculated Risk (Harper; $5) candidly describes the clashes between commanders and Allies, assigns praise & blame with soldierly bluntness...
Waugh makes no great claims for his new book; he calls it "just something to be read; in fact a legend." Yet there can be little doubt, especially when page after page of Waugh's sky-blue prose goes purple with emotion, that the author intended his legend to be literature-a lovingly wrought story that would take its place in the Christian Apocrypha...
...such breathless prose, well-shod, bestselling Author Betty MacDonald, 42, rummages back through her life in an effort to shake the last giggle out of her job-seeking days during the Depression. After Betty walked out on her husband and deserted the chicken farm (The Egg and I), but before she came down with TB (The Plague and I), she went to live in Seattle at her widowed mother's house. There her bossy big sister Mary, a live-wire private secretary with a city full of contacts, thrust her into the hands of one employer after another, including...
...elegance that she is always worth reading. Her own virtues bring her home even when she is farthest off the beam. It is a joy to read her preface to 19th Century Sheridan Le Fanu's Uncle Silas; seen through the delicate, complex lenses of the Bowen prose, it seems a masterpiece. But anyone who takes the preface away from his eye, and looks squarely at the book, will see only a first-rate thriller about a mid-Victorian miss pursued by a bogeyman...
...Westerner," and he he thought Russia should copy the ways of of the industrialized West. Many of his novels, e.g., Fathers and Sons, Rudin, revolve around the political experiences of young Russian intellectuals discontented with czarism - and with the melancholy aftermaths of their disappointed loves. But his first prose work, and his best, lives on as a radiant example of pastoral charm that often overshadows Turgenev's concern for social injustice...