Word: prose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Medusa, however, while Thomas sustains the fine prose and short-essay style of the previous work, he abandons the quality that made the former special: he doesn't restrict himself entirely to his field, biology. Thomas's talent lies in his ability to notice, describe and comment on man and nature. When he strays from this pattern, he gets in trouble. In essays such as "Notes on Punctuation" he plays too many intellectual games, and his essay on etymology is simply out of place...
Women are in conflict between two centuries, between two modes of living, Jong said after a poetry and prose reading at Boylston Hall sponsored by The Harvard Advocate...
...subside in me, as I've learned it does in others, after a time. If my mind could have made a sound, it would have burst a row of wineglasses. I saw coincidences everywhere; meanings darted and danced like overheated molecules." Spencer's tensely energetic prose catches perfectly the lyricism and bombast of single-minded passion. It also registers some sweet and extraordinarily complicated moments involving David and his parents, stolid ex-Communists painfully falling out of love with each other. After the fire, forbidden by a court ever to see the Butterfields again, David secretly begins tracking...
Talbott's strained prose imparts the true ambiance of the negotiations--slow-moving, technical and petty. His writing is often as convoluted as the bureaucratic garble he describes. A diplomatic correspondent for Time, Talbott portrays a Soviet missile as if he were one of the mutants worshipping the bomb in the movie Beneath the Planet of the Apes. Sounding much like a budding David Halberstam, he writes...
...college syllabus. Yet it has never been necessary to go to school to acquire a taste for Hawkes. At its best his writing is vividly accessible, and almost always disturbing. His recurrent subject is the eruption of some dark, violent passion into the turmoil of mental ife, and his prose strains not only to describe this event but to re-create it. Hawkes at peak intensity is the literary equivalent of delirium...