Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rosovsky's letter said that "despite scrupulous care and cutbacks in many areas" the Faculty faces a possible $1.7 million deficit, and that "drastic changes in our style of operation are inevitable unless we can find increased income...
...McWhirters' literary knowledge may be a little shaky, too. "Some authors such as James Joyce eschew punctuation altogether," they remark in the section on "Longest Sentence." And yet their own style has a charm all its own, a stern, Old-World censoriousness of tone that begins with the Guinness Book's first page, a starkly understated discussion of the sizes and careers of various giants, and proceeds through recurring lamentations on the varieties of human duplicity. For example, the McWhirters say. "No single subject is more obscured by vanity, deceit, falsehood and deliberate fraud than the extremes of human longevity...
...secure," he says. "A bank isn't considered a failure because one of its cashiers is caught with his hand in the till." What should U. Mass look for in picking Allen's successor? "Someone who will continue my programs," says Allen, "but someone with a different style...
...staff, had his image problem confirmed by the unawed Safire, whose humor often took the edge off his frequently rejected advice to the President. As related in this bulky but useful account of the preWatergate Nixon Administration, the episode also conveys Safire's slickly polished prose style. "He smiled ruefully," Safire writes of Nixon, "having made his point and not liking the point he had made...
...here. Safire reveals that Nixon impulsively wrote a wholly unpublicized and touching note to the son of Senator Tom Eagleton, praising the father's "poise and just plain guts" when McGovern dropped him as a vice-presidential candidate. Despite the book's length, Safire's sprightly style keeps the story moving. The man who fed Spiro Agnew such alliterations as "nattering nabobs of negativism" strains to avoid cliches, and the struggle is often entertaining...