Word: staccatos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beaded Sweat. His work was a triumph of the will. At his best, he wrote with an audacious, staccato directness which permanently altered the rhythm and content of American fiction. The core of that achievement is the self-explanatory novella, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, a Civil War novel, The Red Badge of Courage, and a handful of poems and stories, notably The Open Boat, The Blue Hotel and The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky. Written when Crane was 22, The Red Badge was a brilliantly intuitive study of war and the emotions of men in combat...
...your groping for an . . . adjective to describe Senator Maybank's accent [TIME, Sept. 11 ], you made a poor choice in "molasses." Since he is a Charleston aristocrat, his speech is better described as a brogue, sharp, distinct, and staccato...
...through his poems and arranged some of them into a rough order. He called it A Boy's Will. To his astonishment, the first publisher he tried accepted the book. In literary London, dominated by William Butler Yeats's misty grand manner and Ezra Pound's staccato snatches, Frost's cool voice was a refreshing contrast...
...direction. Mary McCarthy swaggers delightfully through the role of Maisic; if nothing else, her anatomical proportions fit her uniquely for the job of a Police Gazette reporter. Eddle Albert, as Horace Miller, though not outstanding in general, sings "A Little Fish in a Big Pond" with a fine hoarse staccato. Patricia Hammerlee, the female lead in the ballet troupe, steals nearly every dancing scene with an unusual mastery of comic ballet; the brightest spot in the first act is her routine in the Paris park scene...