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Robison's distinctive style of spare, non-florid prose has been labeled "Minimalism" by reviewers. "They're borrowing terms from painting that aren't applicable," Robison complains. "I don't know why they can't think up their own terms...
...course, a dream assignment; seldom is there so probable a guarantee of a measure of immortality for one's prose. Says Rosenblatt: "The more I thought of the audience, the more fascinated I grew. Here I was writing to people not yet born, who would feel so much older than us and look back on us as museum exhibits. How could I tell them how alive we are?" We think you will find it lively reading and a memorable, moving meditation on our times...
Wide-ranging in his interests, lively in his prose and incisive of opinion, Marty, 58, a Lutheran clergyman, is generally acknowledged to be the most influential living interpreter of religion in the U.S. Leander Keck, dean of the Divinity School at Yale, observes that Marty is not only a noteworthy religion scholar but a "front-rank popularizer . . . In this country there isn't anyone comparable." Other academic commentators, says Keck, lack Marty's breadth of information, polish and "enormous energy...
Writers anxious to improve the quality of their prose and arguments should retype major drafts from a print-out. What? Is the Happy Hacker denouncing the key virtue of a word (once-its-there-you-never-have-to-type-it-again) processor? Not really. Rather, the Hacker is suggesting that by occasionally retyping a paper from scratch, the writer is forced to reconsider every word and sentence in a much more active way than simply by dragging a cursor across...
There are many software add-ons that can improve the power of your word-processor and help clean up your prose. Spelling checkers, programs that proofread your paper for typographical errors, can be very useful, and although the Happy Hacker has no specific recommendations as yet (he's currently reviewing several for an upcoming column), most dictionary programs are better than sitting down with a dictionary...