Word: prose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Silky Prose...
TOGETHER AGAIN, gushed the Daily Express, IS IT GOODBYE AGAIN? asked the Daily Mirror. To Londoners, the boldface heads and bolder prose meant one thing: while Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip were paying a state visit to The Netherlands, tight-lipped Group Captain Peter Townsend, 43, at the end of his 17-month, 60,000-mile world tour, had driven in his green Rover to Clarence House, residence of Princess Margaret, 27. While hundreds milled around outside, the two chatted, sipped tea, then left separately after nearly three hours-he to a rented flat, she, beaming, to a movie premiere...
TIME'S delightful rendition of Dr. Marion Hilliard's rarefied prose concerning the complexities of the intimate life reminded me of the story about a rural child-well-informed on such matters-who one day in early spring announced, "Our cat just had kittens, the cows are coming in fresh and Mommy is going to have a baby, but the pussy willows ain't done a thing...
Youthful (31) Novelist Cicellis unravels this labyrinthine plot-skein with sure and steady hand. Her prose is as light-intoxicated as the air of her native Greece, 3ut her vision of life has a dark, existential Dathos. The book's title is inspired by an image from the radio studio-ten seconds to air time-and it implies that all of life s an absurd, hectic, fragmentary rehearsal :or living that paradoxically ends just at the moment that a man thinks himself ready to begin...
...readers are apt to be depressed by historical novels. This form of literature, which requires a strict convention of disbelief, is perfectly exemplified in The Winthrop Woman, a bulging package of period color, religion, sex, sadism and witchcraft. It is written in what can only be called Williamsburg prose-the settings and costumes are as authentic as money and research can buy, and if the hands and heads that stick through the quaint old collars and cuffs are stuffed with straw, there will be no complaints from the fans of fancy-dress fiction. Novelist Seton (Dragonwyck, Katherine) moves among...