Word: prose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are three prose pieces by Raoul Gersten, Fred Gwynne, and Jerome Rubenstein in this predominately poetry issue. Gersten's story is the smoothest. Gwynne attempts the difficult description of the relationship between a man and his wife as it finally disintegrates. Unfortunately he has worked in a couple of goldfish which weaken rather than strengthen the story: the characters are warped to fit the symbol, rather than the symbol developing naturally out of insight into their behavior...
...find one to suit him, he makes one up. Last week Satchmo was cashing in on his gift of gab by putting it onto paper. With three Armstrong articles due for publication in the U.S., he was also pecking away at an autobiography. A sample of loose-jointed Armstrong prose (and his own weird punctuation), as free & easy as his New Orleans trumpet, tells how he gave a young Italian singer a boost on his European tour last year...
...burnish that Co-Author Charmian Clift brings to her husband's moral tale was good enough, despite a tendency to purple prose, to help win High Valley the ?2,000 first prize in an Australian novel contest in 1948. The book will also gen erally please readers who like Oriental stories to have Oriental endings. Those who prefer Southern California endings should be warned that High Valley is not James Hilton's Shangri...
...times Smith's prose punches as sharply as a good left jab: "Now Walcott was in full flight, and the crowd was booing him. He ducked and danced and ran. He was caught and hit; he clinched and held; he ran again." After a visit to the Westminster Dog Show, Smith announced a discovery: "The ladies tethered to the tiny toys are invariably the most magnificent members of the species . . . The smallest pooch noted was towing the largest handler, a celestial creature measuring 17½ hands at the withers, deep of chest, with fine, sturdy pasterns...
...author of a book of short stories, A Long Fourth (1948), which was respectfully reviewed by most critics. With A Woman of Means, he shows a mastery of the short novel form, and a small, high-grade supply of creative content. Best of all, he writes a prose as clear as a fine pane of glass...