Word: prose
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pays for his failures. To compare The Class with The Group, Mary McCarthy's 1963 best seller of eight Vassar girls and how they grew, is to measure the change in public taste. McCarthy treated her Ivy maidens with defoliating wit; Segal bastes his Harvard yardbirds with sophomore-level prose: "The athletic season culminated with the many confrontations against Yale" and "While it was arguable that his interpretation of the complete Beethoven piano concerti was the best thing put on disk during the previous twelve months, it was indisputable that his publicity campaign was nonpareil...
...CHIEF, Lance Morrow -- OCCASIONAL PROSE, Mary McCarthy -- RANDALL JARRELL'S LETTERS, edited by Mary Jarrell THE SOONG DYNASTY, Sterling Seagrave...
...sifted into sections--one for prisoners, one for travelers, one for creators, and the like. The resulting juxtapositions could be enlightening and provocative and could make for an absorbing book. Unfortunately, Mallon's text leaves us without any resounding insight into the curious business of diary-keeping and his prose is, at best, bland, and more often intrusive for its carelessness, its cliches and its poor attempts at being witty. For example, "Boswell was a veritable American Express card; Johnson could never have left home without it." Or, more seriously, and perhaps more typical of the sort of casual turn...
...stumbled upon some marvelous passages and some intriguing characters. His book is "populated by writers, dancers, madmen, statesman, lovers, assassins, philosophers, housewives, soldiers, and children"--all in all a rich host o: "selves." It is a pity that they are all sapped and leveled by the author's uninteresting prose. We can only hope that there will soon be an Oxford Book of Diaries where Thomas Mallon will be able to exercise his fine discretion...
...extra-curricular activities of the soldiers but using the American military to set an example of morality before the country and he entire world. Hostess Houses were created so that wives and girlfriends could visit with soldiers, but the high concentration of men on military bases were more prose to answer the calls convenient prostitutes and flocking girls...