Word: prose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democratic charges against Eisenhower is that he is vague on issues. Actually, while Ike's prose is vague in style, his speeches are highly specific in content. He has never made a speech so specific as Stevenson's Labor Day speech on the Taft-Hartley Act-but Stevenson has never made another one like that, either...
...addition to his plays (Him and Santa Claus), and a ballet-scenario (Tom}, two prose works have added to his reputation...
This Prisoner of Zenda often stresses purple prose at the expense of red-blooded action, but all in all, it is a colorful version of a popular adventure tale. Granger gives a lively performance as both king and commoner. James Mason seems to enjoy swaggering through his role as the dastardly Rupert of Hentzau, and provides the picture with its most athletic sequence as he duels Rassendyll up & down Zenda castle. Lewis Stone, 72, who played the dual lead in the 1922 silent version, is here cast in a minor role as the cardinal...
...abiding farmers organized to march on towns and to loot the stores. Children left home to spare their parents another mouth to feed . . . Millions of American men & women waited in the breadlines ..." The carefree era "about which a fellow Princetonian of mine, F. Scott Fitzgerald, wrote some enduring prose," ended in disaster, for which the Republican government of the time had no cure except "wails and exhortation ... I can remember when shabby men and boys stood on the highways as far north as Jacksonville, thrusting cards into the few passing automobiles. They were bidding motorists to spend a night...
Worst of all, by using the formal rhythms of artificial comedy to set forth solemn cliches, The Sacred Flame comes off stilted prose rather than human talk, while the production deals in statuary rather than people. Maugham is a naturally neat writer; but the neatness, here, is that of an inferior toupee...