Word: prose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cliches of Harvard's official administrative prose goes something like this: "The University takes a dim view...
Come off it, TIME ! . . . Your persistence in printing in full Ike's pedestrian and platitudinous prose and in depicting Governor Stevenson as a facetious, popeyed monster, if continued until Election Day, may well drive me into casting a Democratic ballot...
...typewriter, or drove an automobile, or danced. He never married. An esthete and a skeptic, a materialist and a poet, a hedonist but of few pleasures, Santayana's mind might have been paralyzed by its conflicts had he not built for himself a sort of monastery of beautiful prose, which was greatly admired by the literary if it was sometimes suspected by philosophers. Santayana's first work had been a volume of sonnets, and poetic intuition was at the bottom of his first important work, The Life of Reason. This appeared explicitly when he modified it by Realms...
...prose has lost its lushness and artifice> Spanish precision and plainness have come through. Detail, passivity, indifference, a stoical acceptance of life, patience, an ironical resignation to the peculiar ways of human beings are its Spanish traits. Santayana's psychological powers are hardly less illuminating in his long essays on the Anglo-Saxon and the American characters; he had already lit up the follies of the German mind in his work on Egotism in German Philosophy, a work much consulted during the war against Hitler...
...meeting of Ike and Nixon at Wheeling was reported in mocking purple prose by the Post's Murray Kempton: "A star was born unto the Republican Party last night . . . Nixon stood up before chilled and adoring thousands ... an antiaircraft beacon's rays upon his brow for a halo . . . his voice soft, hushed and equipped with a catch of rare contrivance, with Pat's eyes shining up at him and soap of infinite purity bubbling over all ... Eisenhower was very glad to play the slow violin accompaniment [to] 'Richard Faces Life...