Word: prose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Author John (The Way to Glory) Scott, who is literary editor of London's dignified Spectator, is simply not the kind of novelist who grapples with nymphomania like a Melville with a whale. Though interested in elemental things, he is more interested in the sound of his clear prose tinkling over them. Moreover, this time, his main theme is the decline of Scotland...
...efforts, neither Cathy nor Alastair strikes the reader as being highly qualified in their respective fields. This is because, like the characters in so many other well-bred British novels, they are nothing but a pair of author's notions dressed in well-cut suits of prose. Asked to play the role of human beasts, they answer, quite rightly, that they were never destined to be anything more than their tailor's dummies...
Pumpley is gone, but there are many others like him still around. They are people who have gone through several years of college without acquiring the ability to express their thoughts in coherent prose. And it is a well known fact of Harvard man ship that the grades go not always to the brilliant, but to those who can fill a bluebook with language that neither confuses or bores a grader...
Because The Artificial Bastard attempts to bring into one small volume all the known data about Richard Savage, it is slightly fact-heavy. But Clarence Tracy's straightforward, clear prose style does much to counterbalance this, and the facts are by no means jumbled. Sometimes, his dispassionate manner gets away from him, and he understates almost ludicrously. "If this charge had been proved it would have gone hard one Savage, in that age of disembowling...
...Post in 1927, she later moved to the tabloid News, where she decided to stay because "it was a small paper; they didn't have nine managing editors and all that nonsense." Because she is so popular, News editors do not tamper with her sometimes confusing finishing-school prose, and the copy desk likes to have its fun with the headlines for Evie's columns: DOES ELIZABETH STILL