Word: stylistic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four earlier novels-The Poorhouse Fair, Rabbit, Run, The Centaur, Of the Farm-were praised, sometimes extravagantly, as the work of a man who was surely destined to write a "major" novel. The trouble was that he was too much the poet, too much the pointillistic stylist, too self-concerned with scenes, images and feelings sensed in a severely limited autobiographical world. He was justly acccused of hiding behind his family and childhood, of not daring the larger, extra-domestic themes that his technical prowess promised, or conversely, of trying to inflate his tiny genre scenes into balloons of cosmic...
More important, he is an authentically gifted prose stylist capable of evoking picturesque images and fiery moods. Soul on Ice is a collection of impassioned letters and heated essays lamenting the fact that American "negritude" has been forced to cool it for too long: the book points prophetically and menacingly at the new world that had better be acoming soon...
Herbert Rawlins, Jr. '27 was a stylist, a player whose grace made him a pleasure to watch. Jack Barnaby '32, Harvard's present squash coach, wrote of him: "It was his pleasure to thwart the crude bludgeonings of sluggers with the rapier thrust of restrained but perfect accuracy." Rawlins took the National title...
...best and travel did not exclude wonder, awe, respect-and suspicion. "The first thing an Englishman does on going abroad is to find fault with what is French, because it is not English," says William Hazlitt. On the other hand, in his splendidly evocative preface, the very contemporary prose stylist Anthony Burgess asserts: "In the most enlightened phases of Northern history, no man could be considered cultivated if he had not gone out to engage the art, philosophy and manners of the Latin countries." Housebound in their in creasingly tight little island, the English, with a curtailed foreign-travel allowance...
...sure, the respectable longhair stands slightly in the hippie's debt. The equivalence of long hair and youth appeals to middle age; the 50-year-old may not look any younger or more like an actor if he lets his hair grow out -or asks his hair stylist to tease a bit more body into it-but he thinks he does. So do many women, the ultimate stylesetters for men. Long hair is also a way of advertising the distance a man has moved upward in a culture now more than ever devoted, in a time of expanding income...