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Word: prose (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stage purposes, James's famous novel uses too broad a canvas, possesses too subterranean a flow, treats of too complexly simple a heroine. And without the prose and insights that give it distinction in book form, Portrait comes off a waxwork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Nights Before Christmas | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

QUITE EARLY ONE MORNING, by Dylan Thomas (240 pp.; New Directions; $3.50), will scarcely affect posterity's view of Poet Thomas, for it is no more than a fragmentary prose footnote to his poetic genius. Composed largely of BBC talks on poetry and childhood reminiscences, the book suggests less how Dylan Thomas made a poem than how he made a living. But even as he fell back on lecturing for money to radio listeners and the matronly bands of U.S. "culture-vultures," as he called them, Poet Thomas whirled his economic crutch like a pinwheel. These pieces testify...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Memories & Martyrs | 12/27/1954 | See Source »

Hemingway expressed his gratitude with an eloquent sample of his prose: "Writing, at-its best, is a lonely life . . . [A writer] does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day . . . How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 20, 1954 | 12/20/1954 | See Source »

...year the readers of biography and autobiography had much the best of it. Whether writing about their own lives or the lives of others, these authors not only seemed to have more to say than the novelists, but some of them actually wrote more accomplished and more enjoyable prose. As usual, the British writers stood at the head of the class, but they did not have all the good marks to themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: BIOGRAPHY | 12/20/1954 | See Source »

...properly used." Hemingway has indeed remained in the carefully delineated, cut-to-the-bone world of simple, palpable acts. But at his best, Hemingway has a sense of fate recalling Melville, an American heartiness recalling Mark Twain (who never used big dictionary words either). Hemingway can carve icebergs of prose; only a few words on paper convey much more beneath the surface. The taut, economical style contains more than meets the casual eye-the dignity of man and also his imperfection, the recognition that there is a right way and a wrong, the knowledge that the redeeming things of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An American Storyteller | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

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