Word: prose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think?" He played with opinions as versifiers play with words. Don Juan's speech in Man and Superman ("They are not prosperous: they are only rich. They are not loyal, they are only servile; not dutiful, only sheepish; not public-spirited, only patriotic," etc.), is really a prose aria balancing on a counterpoint of ideas...
...poems bring an ache to the throat, remembered beauty to the eye, music to the ear, a fresh tack to familiar musings. Some do less. Mothers of five children are rarely the stuff of which great poets are made, as Mrs. Lindbergh herself has pointed out. Her prose is often markedly poetic; at times her poems are prosaic. But if artistry and eloquence occasionally flag, sensibility never does. At their best, her lines flash with beauty and brightness, and like
Ernest Hemingway appears to have left the inedible portions of his celebrated prose style littered all over the green hills of Africa. In his latest novel, Old Africa Hand Stuart Cloete, who last year published a perceptive nonfiction account of his dark and complicated continent (TIME, Oct. 3), has taken up the clipped clarity of the Hemingway of life...
...clear and resourceful prose, Kennan has threaded through a huge maze of diplomatic papers to present a clear picture of America's first frustrations in dealing with the new power. The very first year of the Red Revolution set the future pattern: Western liberal gullibility trying to cope with men who have raised deceit to the level of a philosophy...
Plenty of Nothing. Author Sagan's prose is as disciplined as her characters are not. Her style is spare, lucid and psychologically astute. Yet her novel is a petition in spiritual and emotional bankruptcy. The word "nothing" recurs with obsessive frequency in describing what the heroine thinks and feels. Hemingway reduced the value problem of his "lost generation" to "What is moral is what you feel good after." Sagan has reduced hers to "What you feel is good, if you feel anything." Even the heroine's parting smile precedes a somewhat rueful summing up: "Well, what...