Word: prose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Citation: "Rigorous researcher, persuasive educator, penetrating theologian; in poetic prose and luminous verse he shares with colleagues and disciples his understandings of high traditions and of vital current experience...
...Prose & Poetry...
...hours of deliberation, the jury decided that the word "cowardly" was too strong to describe Nova's performance against Louis, awarded Nova $35,000 in damages. As Flaherty and the Hearst lawyers prepared an appeal, sportswriters shuddered at the dampening effect the decision might have on their own prose. For his own part, Lou Nova had seldom received such bad press notices as he did in this rare moment of real victory. Not a single U.S. daily or wire service reported a word about the trial or Nova's victory in court...
This novel burns a hole in the Iron Curtain with a moral blowtorch. A white-hot account of the Red tyranny in Hungary, The Ninety and Nine is fired less by skilled prose than searing passion, less by action than ideas. Hungarian-born Author Kovács, a World War II underground fighter and onetime secretary-general of Hungary's National Peasant Party, now works for the Free Europe Committee in New York. Lacking the theoretical brilliance of a Koestler, he nonetheless brings to his grade B Darkness at Noon a fingertip knowledge of the Communist mind in action...
...becomes a blood bath. Rich with omens and enchantments, brimming with the life, dress and manners of the time, The Twelve Pictures also breathes life into a profounder theme-the last-ditch war of the pagan spirit v. the Christian faith. Author Simon writes a slightly cramped neo-archaic prose, but few living writers can dip a reader's mind so wholly and fascinatingly in a sense of the past...