Word: prose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...friends at the New Republic and after lunch at the Monitor, where Reader Jimmy Carter telephoned his congratulations. Strout got a late start on his column, but one would never know; as usual, TRB this week is a sprawling symphony of erudition, indignation, historical allusion and harmonic prose. His overture to a diatribe against the two-thirds Senate majority requirement for treaty approval: ''I don't know whether to start this piece with an American battleship dashing round the Horn in wartime, a biologist slicing the salivary gland of a female mosquito, a volcanic eruption killing...
...succeed makes him particularly vulnerable to a false god, ambition. "I spent four of my five years at Stanford writing a novel I was unable to sell," he recounts. "I found it an intense, in many ways devastating, experience. A very serious book. Very polished. I still read the prose with great pleasure. I came here feeling that, for whatever reasons, I'd failed as a writer, so I wanted to do something well. I wanted to start in a new field and feel successful with it." The hallmark of doing something well, he adds, bringing it all into focus...
...reporting on the war, Dispatches, the crazy war in Vietnam and the equally crazy cultural revolution here both fed off the same circuit, to the point that the survivors of both of those twittering machines are almost indistinguishable from each other. "All Along the Watchtower" arcs above the prose as Hemingway does below, not Dylan's fearful version but Jimi Hendrix's scream. The prose itself is cool, boldly surreal for an American writer--magically realistic. That may be the only way an individual can capture and filter and finally understand the ultimate horror of Vietnam: stripping naked a burnt...
...rare American stage appearance, Princess Grace Grimaldi of Monaco, accompanied by Richard Pasco of the Royal Shakespeare Company, gave a reading of poetry and prose last night at the Loeb Drama Center...
...should do: developing accurate, unbiased, truly rigorous admissions criteria. I do not believe minority students are asking for preferential treatment or favors--most of the minority students I have met here are too qualified to lack a sense of entitlement. It is unfortunate that the misplaced anger and incautious prose on the part of the authors of "Recruitment" is enough to leave them with nothing but their sense of entitlement: no allies in the admissions office; no sympathetic minority or majority alumni; and invariably, no advances. --Jonathan Cahn...