Word: prose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doing little pantomines, in running about the stage, in forming picturesque groupings and dissolving them again, in doing all sorts of unnecessary busy-work. Mr. McNamara especially has been induced, or at least allowed, to pace and fidget and mug past the point of caricature. Synge's purplest prose is as natural and spontaneous as a wild flower, but Mr. Gistirak has tried to manure it with shovelfuls of staginess...
...recall, a venerable Harvard graduate, T.S. Eliot, placed on the market a remarkable criticism machine that fairly revolutionized the literary business. This ingenious invention, which closely resembled an old-fashioned washing machine but was of course so very much more than that, could wring out any piece of English prose that a skillful scholar introduced to its slithery maw. The Harvard English Department, never remiss in its respect for venerability, kept the criticism machine in perfect working order, oiling it, polishing it, loving...
...first effects of the technologicial age became apparent when scholars learned the machine best wringed out prose composed in the United Kingdom, composed preferably, before the start of the 19th century. Sadly, America was a land of haste and the automatic washer-dryer, and the work of American prosewriters proved too crude, too harsh, for the Eliot machine's sensitivities. No fools, the scholars did not be-tray their beloved machine, and respected its sensitivities; they didn't bother much with trying to process American literature, particularly modern American literature...
...loyalty to TIME is due in large part to its superior prose. For instance, the lead sentence of the G.E. article is, surprisingly, a poem...
...France's Marcel Ayme, 56, literary art is the science of the impossible. Characters in Across Paris, a collection of twelve remarkable short stories, walk through walls, don seven-league boots, and play chess with stuffed owls. If the meanings are not always crisp and clear, the prose is. In his stories as in his novels (The Barkeep of Blemont, The Second Face) Author Ayme follows one rule: put all of life's ironies in the creative fire...