Word: prose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...words are confusing. Even more so in definitions. One freshman was asked to define blank verse. Blank verse, he wrote, was "verse in prose civilized like we talk." And there was also that wonderful metaphor found in Gen Ed A theme on the drafting of athletes: "The cream of baseball was being poured into Uncle Sam's uniform...
...existence in a comfortable and cultured city of the vilest depths of misery and degradation, and the question of whether a good end can justify any means. The first of these great issues is largely muffled in Dickensian-Hogarthian picturesqueness for the slums, and clumsy, over-literary, rhetorical prose for the cultured quarters. The second problem, once stated, is largely ignored...
Behind the well-starched prose of this memo, sent out last week by the U.S. Army's Adjutant General Robert Lee, lay the sleepless vigilance of the organization known for short as P.O.A.U., and for long as Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State. P.O.A.U. has been increasingly uneasy about what it views as an excessive growth of Roman Catholic influence in the armed forces (and elsewhere), specifically in the promotion of chaplains. But P.O.A.U.'s uneasiness mounted to anxiety when it caught wind of what seemed to its officials a movement to dedicate...
...Fellow Mail Correspondent Ralph Izzard trekked 200 miles along the rugged Nepal-Tibet border with four Sherpa guides and 40 coolies, who carried their six tents, snow boots, whisky, double-lined sleeping bags, tinned food, drugs and 4,000 French cigarettes. For serious Tibet experts, Barber's panting prose about the guerrilla warfare between Chinese Communists and Tibetan warriors brought guffaws. But then Adventurer Barber once said: "I like to get far away, where nobody knows if I'm wrong...
...Seesaw. A kind of prose duet between a couple of Manhattan blues singers. Uneven but amusing and touching...