Word: proses
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Poetry and prose...
...fair, the company noted in lawyerly prose that Bolduc, who is married and has four children, "vehemently denied and continues to deny" any sexual misconduct. Grace further pointed out that none of the women who came forward has so far filed any formal harassment complaint against the former CEO. As a result, Grace said, its directors decided "to request Mr. Bolduc's resignation, but not to seek his termination for cause...
...Claudio in Kenneth Branagh's film Much Ado About Nothing, Leonard looked thoroughly out of his element while trying to do what stage actors traditionally do--proclaim words of love in ornamental verse. Here, in an odder role that requires him to speak of mathematics in hard-edged, gemlike prose, he is gratifyingly convincing...
...Lord Byron's Doctor gives his own case the Byronic treatment. "From my first chemistry set, I knew that I was an experiment too ... I walked and breathed immersed in a world not mine, not made of me" is a fair sample of his lyric urges. West's prose thrives on making connections: the interactions of hospital gadgetry with his own balky machinery; or how a late Beethoven quartet integrates opposing moods. West lists those moods as bold, mutinous, euphoric, sedate and restive, which add up to a pretty good description of his book...
Maybe Lightman will write such a novel, one that conveys, in the enchanting prose of Einstein's Dreams, the strange culture of all-too-human physicists--a difficult task, since Lightman's style has so far shown itself much better suited to fanciful speculation than to plot and character. But the seeds are there; they just don't bear fruit in Good Benito...