Word: proses
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...Protocol. Perhaps the cover, a lurid, close-up shot of a woman's navel surrounded by pink orchids, gives it away. Or the font used in the title lettering, highly reminiscent of a Harlequin romance novel. The interior of the book also betrays any serious scientific aims. Ogden's prose is casual, interrupted by sporadic fits of lyricism: "We allow the energy to reverberate in our consciousness and beyond." Now how exactly does that fit into a Venn diagram...
...Allan Bloom, Bellow's late friend and colleague at the University of Chicago. Yet even if It All Adds Up is more an agglomeration of rants than a systematic critique, it is inspiring to watch someone as august and honored as Bellow join the fray with such bareknuckle prose and such a passion for independence...
...probably had enough of Darren's poetry yesterday and mine today, so here's some serious prose...
Stokes does point out that the Chafetz book is curiously self-indulgent, written as a first-person narrative of one man's odyssey in search of the truth, whereas McNamara strikes a strong pose of journalistic objectivity, with her crisp prose and confident tone. But Stokes is correct--even if both of these books are "biased," only one of them could be said to be "croppled" by it, and that book is McNamara's. And it is croppled largely because of its posture of objectivity...
...nation's businesses are currently issuing their 1993 annual reports, with prose carefully crafted by some of America's top public-relations specialists. A reader...