Word: prose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Milton S. Gwirtzman '54 was awarded the James Gordon Bennett Prize of approximately $150 for his thesis, "The Decline of the Democratic Party in New York State: 1932-1952." The grant is given for the best essay in English prose on some subject of American governmental domestic or foreign policy of contemporaneous interest...
...Fleet Streeters also half-jokingly said that he infuriated his boss Lord Beaverbrook at a dinner party by blowing a smoke ring across the table into the Beaver's open mouth.) On Lord Rothermere's Sketch he found the tabloid an incongruous place for his erudite, allusive prose. But his new job on the more highbrow Observer is just the kind of spot that Tynan has wanted ever since Oxford. On the Observer, says one of Tynan's friends, he will continue to write "what other people may be thinking but wouldn't dream of saying...
Musical Momist. What is Liberace's magic? It could be merely the irresistible appeal of his shining mediocrity. But there is also his quality-which comes out in his bounciness, his sweet smile, his nasal voice, his my-oh-my prose style-of being just a big little boy. And a good boy, too, who would never swear or drink or leave his poor old mother while he ran off with some young hussy. Liberace is fully aware of this appeal. Says he: "Unfortunately, there are too many lonely mothers around today, deserted by their children when they need...
...foreign affairs and (since 1936) the first woman member of the Times's governing editorial board; of cancer; in Manhattan. Born in England, reared in Ohio, she made numberless trips to Europe (often with her husband, a Dayton importer) for first-hand interviews. A writer of clear, unexcited prose, she cut through much of the nonsense in her field, constantly urged the U.S. to treat its allies with consideration and develop its foreign policy from strength...
Author Isherwood's prose still has the crisp grace of a good tennis match. He is an exterior decorator of chic and competence, whether the setting is Athens, the Alps, or the South of France. But by now he has splashed all the water out of his stagnant, neurotic pool and seems more and more like his hero-a high-and-dry orphan of the Saxophone...