Word: prose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pluck & Prose. During his boyhood in Minnesota and Chicago, Author Gruber was influenced by the works of Horatio Alger, and his philosophy is still sturdily Horatian: he figures that if he works hard enough he can write and sell almost anything. With pluck, luck and plain prose about the plains he has published 41 novels, sold 20 to the movies, done an additional 54 screen plays, 90 TV scripts and written 350 short stories. The fact that he owns 15% of Wells Fargo does not keep him from writing scripts for other oaters (e.g., Desilu's The Texan...
...this, as in the other three stories (also about waifs and strays), Author Capote has retained sentiment without permitting himself schmalz, achieved pity without falling into self-pity. Over whatever is sordid falls his crisp, clean prose. At the end of Breakfast, Holly's whereabouts are unknown and she may even be dead and "travelin' through the pastures of the sky." But her fate is really written in her dialogue. Bad little good girls like Holly Golightly never die; they go to Broadway, where Julie Harris plays them...
...good that ought to make many an orthodox pulpit-pounding clergyman blush in envy. Yet the meaning of The Bell is muffled in final ambiguity, as the colony goes under in a tidal wave of newspaper scandal. With its strange but oddly exciting characters, its limpid prose, its sly wit and its ethical insight, The Bell unquestionably tolls, but it is never clear for whom and for what...
With the dreams out of the way, Ronnie Clark can get on with his rescue mission. Question, not answered till the final pages: Will he arrive in time? As always, Shute writes in plain, unadorned prose, packs his book with pluck and poignancy, and handles his flashbacks as easily as he would a basic trainer...
File 7 (ABC, 11:30 a.m.-noon). A double-gaited educational hoss that runs like a'critter out of the Encyclopaedia Britannica by Confidential. The subject is Edgar Allan Poe-not his poetry and prose, but his alcoholism and drug addiction. Professor-Author (The Histrionic Mr. Poe) N. Bryllion Fagin conducts the inquest...