Word: prose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. John Fischer, 68, gentlemanly editor of Harper's magazine from 1953 to 1967; of complications following surgery; in New Haven, Conn. Fischer imbued Harper's with graceful, intelligent prose and humor. He became known for encouraging writers and for the cool reason of his column, "The Easy Chair...
Teddy White's prose, as quoted in your Special Section, establishes for all time that Theodore H. White [July 3] is the greatest historical reporter of this or any other century...
Thus the world learned, in prose and tone that often seemed straight from a Monty Python satiric sketch, that Les ley Brown is a pretty woman of 5 ft. 5 in., who wears her brownish hair in a pageboy cut. In her turquoise-blue hospital room, she often lounges in an easy chair, wearing a brown-and-white bell-sleeved housecoat. She spends much of her time making telephone calls, doing puzzles, knitting, nibbling on mints and eating ordinary hospital food (a typical lunch: steak and kidney pie with mashed potatoes, followed by fruit tart). Occasionally, added the Evening Chronicle...
...replaced Victor Hugo. A similar survey of contemporary writers would turn up many of the master's titles: An Outcast of the Islands, Lord Jim, Typhoon, Nostromo, The Secret Agent and his greatest story, Heart of Darkness. His ominous Slavic intensity and his understated English produced a prose style that generations have found intoxicating. Countless youths acquired their first sense of literary power in such passages as "When an opportunity offered at last to meet my predecessor, the grass growing through his ribs was tall enough to hide his bones...
...that of the indefatigable but bumbling striver, chirping away about her supposed inability to stage a dinner party, cope with preternaturally wisecracking children or conform to the feminine image conveyed in glossy women's magazines. If any malice was in her, she kept it out of her prose...