Word: prose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result, the book, which has a kind of self-generating power and authenticity, reads more like fictionalized memoirs than a novel. Self-educated, slum-bred Augie writes with a combination of raw, breezy slang and literary allusion that is often bouncy and effective, although too frequently his overenthusiastic prose is merely bloated. But Augie is a bubbling, vivacious fellow who knows how to smile at the world-and laugh at himself, and despite its faults of narrative, style and taste, the story is good enough to push 38-year-old Saul Bellow to the forefront of the younger, postwar...
...mystery writers who do not use the pen as a blunt instrument. Such are Britain's Howard Clewes and the late F. L. Green.* Neither An Epitaph for Love nor Ambush for the Hunter will floor anyone with surprises, but each crackles with suspense and crisp, literate prose...
...South Africa got drunk and took a black woman into the bushes. This, in plain words, is the subject of Alan Paton's second novel, Too Late the Phalarope. However, as readers of his first novel well know. Author Paton does not write in plain words. The prose in Cry, the Beloved Country sounded to some like the language of a very gifted high-school senior who has cried Tom Wolfe once too often. To others, especially to those who were not disturbed to find the rhythms of the King James Version forced on secular prose, it sounded like...
Cheap War. Coming after the sludgy prose of Stalin, Malenkov showed a talent for macabre wit and agile invective. He jeered at the U.S. role in Korea: "The aggressive interventionists . . . looking for a cheap war, a blitzkrieg . . . suffered enormous material and human losses and were forced to renounce their aggressive plans. The sheep went in with all their wool and came out clipped...
...violent deeds are hard to imagine and slums are small enough to be swept under the carpet. Born and raised in Old Saybrook, Conn., Negro Author Ann Petry has the background to make her story fresh and credible. Apart from a deplorable tendency toward short flights of bogus impressionist prose, she also has the easy writing ability to tell a warm, readable story...