Word: prose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Critics have tried to proselytize Orwell's shade, I think, because there is not much else they can do with him. His work does not lend itself to criticism. His prose style is better read than read about; there are few meanings in his novels beyond what he consciously put there; and aware of his limitations, he seldom ventured beyond them...
...euphoric Paris critic recently told his readers of an artist whose work has "an intense living presence because it is drawn from the pulsing daily life of breathing humanity." This panting prose was directed to the achievements of a 31-year-old singer named Mick Micheyl. With Juliette Greco, who last week was breathing her dusky ballads to patrons of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, Mick is the most extravagantly acclaimed of post-Piaf popular French "art" singers. Singers Micheyl and Greco look as if they may become the most exciting exports from the Paris nightclubs since Piaf began looking...
...matter how diffuse the poetry may be, it is solidity itself when contrasted with the prose. Ernest Hemingway has been a bad influence on practically everybody, but his one great merit was to show that a short story should more often than not say one thing as quickly as possible...
...winter comes when the postman delivers the spring catalogue of Jackson & Perkins Co., the world's biggest rose growers. This spring the J. & P. catalogue displayed more than 120 different varieties of roses in all floral colors except blue, breathlessly described them in the rosiest of prose. Among the new roses to dream over were Aida ("displays the same majestic grandeur and dark beauty as its namesake"), Golden Fleece ("performs with all the grace and beauty of a flirting ballerina") and Spartan ("no race of men ever existed as strong and vigorous as the Spartans...
...description of The Medium as "theatrical" has been chosen with care. Although very decidedly operatic, this work is not an opera in the grand manner. While all dialogue is sung, most of it is in prose, and the music generally serves to underline rather than to support the overall effect. This effect is a somber one, ultimately rising to tragic import...