Word: prose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Much of Guderian's record has the quality of a G-3 report. But when the Russians turn on Guderian in subzero weather, the military prose gives way to simple despair: "Only he who saw the endless expanse of Russian snow during this winter of our misery and felt the icy wind that blew across it, burying in snow every object in its path: who drove for hour after hour through that no-man's-land only at last to find too thin shelter with insufficiently clothed, half-starved men: and who also saw by contrast the well...
...years in India and Africa, the Rev. Charles Kingsley* Williams found that English-speaking natives often had trouble understanding the rich prose of the King James Bible...
Businessman Tasaki says little to the point about the new Japan, and he says it in prose so lugubrious that it can be read for laughs. Sample: ". . . For [Ko-ume] thought if she recognized her love for Minoru, she would present her all to him before she knew whether he would be faithful or not, and with the possibility that she would advance to her ultimate destruction at the hands-of some sinister infidelity on his part." Novelist Tasaki obviously wishes to show that Japan is headed toward a new and more wholesome social point of view. What...
...convention-one of the greatest in U.S. history-and great in a particular way. Not in the level of its oratory, which can be appraised by noting that its best speech was made by Elder Statesman Herbert Hoover. Nor in its platform, which will never be mistaken for resonant prose. Nor in unity...
...Portable Gibbon preserves what has kept best in Gibbon: his sly wit, his stately prose rhythms, his knack for making the mummies of history sit up on the printed page and kick off their wrappings, and his intoxication with the grandeur of Rome. Not a philosopher of history in the vein of Spengler, Toynbee and Sorokin, but a true son of the Age of Reason, Gibbon blamed Rome's downfall on the "triumph of barbarism and religion."* His dim view of Christianity shocked his own and successive generations...