Word: prose
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chief, Lance Morrow -- Citizen Hughes, Michael Drosnin -- Occasional Prose, Mary McCarthy -- The Periodic Table, Primo Levi -- Up for Grabs, John Rothchild -- A Vanished Present: The Memoirs of Alexander Pasternak, edited by Ann Pasternak Slater
...most consistently praised portion of the Boston Globe's vaunted ports section. The broad understanding Gammons brings to the game is constantly embellished by his uncanny abilities as an investigative reporter in uncovering salient facts. But for all the applause Gammons receives for his reporting and subsequent analysis, his prose remains flawed...
...Gammon's first book, Beyond the Sixth Game, the deluge of facts and choppy prose combine with a minimum of narrative flow that wears on even the most partisan of Red Sox fans. What works so effectively in a newspaper column does not please when extended over nearly three hundred pages...
...must also be said that though Gammons' knowledge is appreciated, it sometimes appears in fatuous form. That Scipio Spinks was the college coach of current Sox pitcher Oil Can Boyd is neither an earth-shattering or particularly interesting revelation. Gammons' awkward prose and his tendency to repeat anecdotes (how many times must we hear that after clinching the American League pennant in '75, Sox manager Darrel Johnson drank whiskey with Oakland Athletic Joe Rudi rather than celebrating with his team?) do not help matters...
...more traditional vein, Albion is a revelation as Ulysses. Strutting around the stage to the delight of his fellow Grecians as well as the audience. Albion felicitously slides into character. Because Ulysses is unmistakibly Shakespeare's favorite character Albion has the bard's most eloquent prose an his dispoal, of which he takes full advantage...