Word: prose
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Probably. More to the point, what did Capote expect? Did this worldly virtuoso of American prose really believe he could tell and still kiss, or did he make a calculated career move? Capote was, after all, the literary imp who said, "A boy has to hustle his book," and in a preface to Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel, Random House Editor Joseph Fox notes that the author considered himself to be a master publicist...
Right from the start Grunwald attracted notice. His first boss at TIME remembered him as "driven, willing to work terribly hard." Others soon noted what graced that drive: a capacious intellect, an incisive wit and a consistent ability to turn out elegant, exact prose. His ascent was rapid, and he became managing editor in 1968. Grunwald transformed TIME. He instilled new depth and vitality in the formula developed by Henry Luce and Briton Hadden...
...editor-in-chief since 1979, Grunwald brought that same spirit of * disciplined creativity to our six magazines. Always in search of new trends, new perspectives and new ideas, he remained a prose purist who would settle for nothing less than the best-written and best-designed magazine possible...
Coming upon the prose of his young New Yorker colleague John Updike, Perelman is "overtaken by the characteristic nausea that attacks me when this youth performs on the printed page." Lawrence Durrell is "one of those Englishmen whose eye is especially made for spitting into." A publisher's catalog contains "only a few horrors like Tom Wolfe (of whom I suspect they're secretly ashamed...
...literary credentials while still shadowboxing within the tough-guy genre. In his two most recent novels, A Catskill Eagle and Taming a Sea-Horse, Parker's private-eye hero Spenser embarked on studiedly medieval quests to rescue damsels in distress. Some fans admired the chivalric plots and illuminated prose; others, finding these adventures merely portentous, longed for a return to the snarly, wisecracking style of Parker's earlier books and the ABC-TV series spin-off, Spenser...