Word: prose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even fond brother William had been forced to confess: "I for one am no longer able to read a word he writes." Yet James was sustained by glimmerings of posthumous greatness which he revealed in a letter to Fellow Novelist William Dean Howells: "Some day all my buried prose will kick off its various tombstones at once...
...Apparently undergraduates in general and The Advocate in particular find criticism a simpler task than creation. This is not, however, to suggest that criticism should consume more space, but rather, that their editors should apply their critical standards to the material they publish. There is no shortage of undergraduate prose technicians, and many of them are writing for The Advocate. If the editors can convince these craftsmen that their work should say something, that it is not absolutely essential to be so divorced from the subject as not to give a damn about it, and that it is not necessary...
...made a gesture toward suicide before falling into hubby's arms in a roadside motel for the final clinch that solved everything. Lux Video Theater struggled hopelessly with a limp script about some papier-mâché gangsters who were routed by the impassioned prose of a crusading sports reporter...
...legend of Victorian domestic virtue and strict private morals was literally a fiction. Pearl suggests. Dickens, the prose laureate of the era, and Trollope, who boasted that "no girl has risen from the reading of my pages less modest than she was before,'' handed down a false moral portrait of the Victorian middle and upper classes which has persisted to this day. They were abetted. Pearl argues, by biographers and historians who "suppressed and distorted shamefully," in a "conspiracy against truth...
...life of love and love of life revealed to Carmela in these reveries make The Film of Memory a sensuous shelfmate to David Garnett's recently published Aspects of Love (TIME, Jan. 30). French Novelist Maurice Druon, a Prix Goncourt winner, applies Latin brio and an urbane Gallic prose style to his tale, and he can navigate the rapids of a zany stream of consciousness without drowning the reader...