Word: prose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once chosen by a jury including Pianist Artur Rubinstein to play on a radio teenage talent program (Prokofiev. Debussy), Brooklyn-born Neil Sedaka explains his turn from serious music in a flack-flavored burst of prose: "The kids who used to throw rocks at me now roll with me." Sedaka's lyrics, like those of his contemporaries, have the air of frenzied discontent that hooks the teen trade. "Today," says one record executive, "you gotta have Weltschmerz with the beat...
Even more educational was the composition of his memoirs. Painstakingly set down in elongated script, the memoirs were written in a classic prose Frenchmen had not seen in a long time?precise yet lyrical, stamped with honor, revealing the essential selflessness of a man dedicated to his nation's grandeur. On the strength of this literary achievement, France's intellectuals?who do so much to set their country's political tone?for the first time gave De Gaulle their wholehearted admiration.* And in the act of reducing his life to book form, the general reviewed his past mistakes, sketched...
...confessed to an affection for England "so intense that it is actually physical" (despite the "bad cooking and the pro-bolshevist press"). When he wrote letters in verse to friends such as Diplomat-Poet Maurice Baring, he insisted that it was because he had no time to write prose. As he observed in his snaggly, almost indecipherable hand...
BALTHAZAR, by Lawrence Durrell. The second volume of a projected tetralogy extends the large hint given by last year's Justine: that Anglo-Irish Author Durrell writes just about the most original prose fiction to be found today. Balthazar revisits the scene-Alexandria-and the characters of Justine, catches them again in a blaze of passion, decadence and self-doubt that adds a new dimension of truth to the many faces of love...
...long story and three short ones about the waifs and strays of the world who search for handholds and usually get their fingers stepped on. Holly Golightly, a good little bad girl, is the disarming and memorable heroine of the title story. Caparisoned in Capote's crisp, shining prose, she and her raffish companions seem like characters from a tawdry but real bedtime story...