Word: prose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most exciting thing about the current Advocate, however, is neither its prose nor its poetry so much as its new, businesslike format and its equally serious policy of having a lead editorial or review in every issue. The first of these, Charles Sifton's review of Leslie Fiedler's essays, handles an important topic with some comprehension and a bit of felicitous expression. The Advocate is at last beginning to advocate something, if only as an appreciation of others' ideas. Eric Martin's cover is pleasant enough, but its light blue might have appealed more in warmer weather. Biddle...
...about Harvard scholarships and aid are available, but capable secondary school counsellors are needed, to put the facts before the student. All too many students pick unwisely or not at all, and finish their education at Fort Sill. The only existing guide is the College Handbook, containing much purple prose but little information. The student wants to know what the college is really like, not what the college wishes to do to society and humanity...
This glum and clumsy man, who sometimes seemed to be making animal noises rather than writing prose, is still able to make the reader share his blank sense of pain. The U.S. has never been patient with its pessimists, but to square accounts with a Dreiser, mere optimism is not enough...
...period nor insularly British. It is essentially a secular tragedy told in the idiom of understatement (which Novelist Powell admits "has its own banality"); there is a pit beneath the parquet floor and the Old School Tie may become a garrote. It needs all his well-tended prose to keep the corpse of nihilism buried in the garden...
...school for the quality of student it sends them. This week, in his annual report, Dean William Warren of the Columbia University School of Law turned the tables on the colleges. "We are entitled," he wrote, "to expect that the college graduate be able to read argumentative or expository prose swiftly, comprehendingly. and retentively; that he be able to express himself in speech and writing grammatically, literately, and precisely; that he has learned the basic lesson of using a dictionary. But we have found that few of our entering students, however carefully selected, possess these skills to the extent needed...