Word: prose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...effort of no value to future octogenarians. "312" has a number of articles which combine the two aims admirably, such as the one on Eliot House which in a smooth, choicely worded style captures the House's spirit as well as naming names and infinitum. In general, though, its prose is little more than pedestrian and, in the lead article's case, downright inadequate and dull; neither atmosphere nor details come through well...
...Like the prose, the poetry ranges from good t disappointing. In "Jonathan Victus," Peter MacVeagh chose his theme with care, nurtured it through four fine stanzas, and then uprooted it poetically with a jarring last verse. Similarly, Benjamin La Farge, in his "letter To a Friend," includes phrases like "where old men snore" which may satisfy a demanding rhyme scheme but which destroy the tone of the poem...
...preparing him to deal with his field as a whole. Moreever, there is an extraordinary difficulty of getting six students to agree on a common subject--not to mention even a common hour. Whatever subject the tutor settles on--a major author or a topic like seventeenth century prose, or the modern novel, half his group will be already taking a more specialized course in it or prefer to do so the following year. If this sort of duplication is pleasing to some students, it is a cause of chronic complaint to others. It might be that the tutorial groups...
...including a particularly moving account of a Parisian cemetary, powerful in its understatement. For the former locals, Robert Bly has contributed two poems, and Train, a "Paris Commentary." The poems are enjoyable stimulants, but Train seems overwhelmed by the task of portraying the new expatriates. At any rate, his prose seems pompous and even at times mucky, a far cry from his Lampoon days and a bit too bad, since his commentary contains some acute observations...
Farrar's faith in the power of good typography makes many a prose-conscious newsman wince. Says Typographer Farrar: "A poor paper with a good package has a better chance than a good paper with a bad package . . . A good-looking paper inspires better writing. It inspires pride of ownership. It inspires the circulation and ad people to go out and sell...