Word: stylist
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...some mythic glade, he rummages in London garbage cans and beds down on park benches. He is human dirt, but of a kind that makes the earth earthy. She is refined past the point of passion, yet curiously unawakened, nervously expectant. In the hands of a less urbane stylist, a sexual encounter between Faith and Jacques could be a coarse joke. But British Novelist Tom Kaye omits four-letter words; he is celebrating a four-letter god, Eros, the deity he believes makes the world go round...
Perhaps the best thing about Berenson is that he communicates his pleasure so vividly. As a prose stylist, he approaches the great aestheticians of the past--Burke, Reynolds, Ruskin. He has the perfect control of a balanced sentence and a splendidly colorful use of words; in short, he is a master of rhythmic evocative prose...
...Darwin himself confessed that his own intelligence was "infantile" beside Huxley's-comes through in Biographer Cyril Bibby's book. He is abetted in forewords by Huxley's two greatly talented grandsons : Sir Julian and Aldous Huxley. Ironically. Scientist Julian praises grandfather's prose, while Stylist Aldous praises his pedagogics. Without much help from pedestrian Author Bibby, who bears down too heavily on Huxley's role as an educational reformer, the book crackles with examples of Huxley's wit as his other careers unfold-physician, biologist, lecturer, theological controversialist. The greatest "scientific humanist...
...separate national air defense systems in an area as small as Western Europe. To make sure he got De Gaulle's full attention, Norstad borrowed Dwight Eisenhower's official interpreter, Lieut. Colonel Vernon Walters, who speaks eight languages, including a French that has earned the respect of Stylist de Gaulle...
...Also, he's such a great stylist--those wonderful phrases which people are always quoting in dissertations. `This decent and dauntless people'--Churchill used James and probably didn't realize he was quoting him. And James touched his time at so many points. George Moore writes, 'James went to Paris and met Turgenev, William Dean Howells stayed at home and read James.' It is marvelous that an American could take his seat at the European table of fiction so early in our history...