Word: prose
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This mammoth chronicle is Michener's longest yet, and like so many of those before it, contains perfunctory characterization, arid prose and an authentic gift for conveying the mighty sweep of history. This time the locus is the Lone Star State. Michener begins his tale in the early 16th century, when Tejas was unexplored Mexican wasteland. In the kilopage fictification that follows, events and personalities pass in review: the Alamo and the Battle of San Jacinto, Comanche raids, cattle drives, oil, religion, high school football, superpatriotism and real estate dodges. Much of this is fascinating, but it is propelled...
...current initiative is the latest chapter in Marius's ongoing campaign to make writing a higher priority at Harvard. It was intended to prevent undergraduates' prose from deteriorating after Expos, Marius's associates said...
...time he was 30, White had earned a reputation as a master of luminous prose, and over a career that spanned more than 50 years, he never let his standards or his audience down. He insisted that words, his own and others', should communicate rather than confuse: "When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair." He had no patience with the sloppy or faddish. The spreading misuse of the term hopefully drew a pithy rebuke: "This once useful adverb meaning 'with hope' has been distorted...
...went to Cornell, where he gladly surrendered his given names, Elwyn Brooks, for the moniker Andy (after Andrew D. White, the university's first president). After graduation, White held jobs in journalism and advertising without finding an employer who could make good use of his whimsical temperament and lapidary prose...
...early moments of the flight, proceeded in efficient monotones through checklists, opening and closing switches, scanning the warning lights on the cockpit panels, coordinating with mission control. Fourteen minutes into the flight, Houston relayed a message of congratulations from the President, written in robust Rose Garden prose...