Word: prose
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...write this, I am surrounded by my friends, my beloved, and various hangers-on whose names I can never quite recall. To you, I dedicate this humble piece of prose...
...even. God and Man at Yale, God and Nude at the Daily! I thought of Carlyle. Shall we sartus, let alone resartus, the sartor? Shall we, while we're about it, clothe the Yale Daily scriptor? Through the turbid sophomoricism of what Mr. Snotbottom is doubtless pleased to call "prose," I seemed to detect an affirmative reply...
...write well requires confidence. The good writer is sure of his ear, his cadence, and his imagery. He must trim his prose with the zeal of the Inquisition. He needs the courage to choose those thoughts which seem right to him, the belief that his thoughts are worth articulating, and the faith that the articulation of those thoughts is worthy. In short, the successful writer is cockily sure of his craft. He is willing to put in the extra hours of work because he knows the result will be commensurate to his effort...
...portrait in prose of the Communist giant. Touring the Soviet republics, Essayist Roger Rosenblatt listens to the voices of ordinary people and discovers a beauty derived from a sense of life as grief. See Special Section...
Thernstorm's thesis was the first time that the winner of the Joan Gray Untymer Radcliffe Poetry Prize tried her hand at prose, although she has had many poems published. Thernstrom says that her thesis adviser Monroe Engel, senior lecturer in English, helped her out immeasurably with writing the narrative. "I never could have written it without him," she says...