Word: prose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Crosby's pugnacious pose on the jacket of "Out of the Blue" looks like a Walter Mitty conception of the cynical newspaperman. Though there's a swagger in Crosby's prose as well, his wit and sound judgment as a reviewer makes this collection of his best columns very entertaining...
...case each portion of this book, thinly connected though they seem, is quite absorbing and well worth the effort of plowing through Fischer's dessicated prose. Like the other books produced by members of the Russian Research Center, "Soviet Opposition to Stalin" contains many an insight and many a fact which are both interesting in themselves and crucial to understanding the problem faced by the United States
Immortalized in Presidential prose...
This is perhaps one of the rarest of talents and surely one of the most valuable. The text in this book is clear, biting, colloquial prose. It is a good job of summing up, trying together, and highlighting; but it seldom (if ever) surpasses the cartoons...
...judgment did a good job. Topping his list is the Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart. Among several dozen others who rate high marks on his list: the Associated Press's Leif Erickson, Reuters' Ronald Bachelor, I.N.S. Correspondent Frank Conniff (the best for "atmospheric prose"), the New York Times's Dick Johnson. The Trib's Marguerite Higgins often filed good stories, says Voorhees, but "she and the other [women] distinctly were out of place in a battle zone conditioned to the convenience ... of the male," e.g., open-air latrines and communal sleeping...