Word: stylistic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stylist...
...still possible, of course, to get an ordinary oldfangled hair cropping at a decent price. But in increasing numbers, men are demanding something more. The new hair stylist gives it to them, at prices ranging from $6 to $100. The new shops do not even look like the old ones; they look like beauty parlors. Figuratively, and in some cases literally, they are. Manhattan's Hair Design Associates, on St. Mark's Place, caters to both men and women, although once the clients have been swaddled up to their necks in hair cloths it is sometimes difficult...
...Styron to produce an intense novel that maintained a delirious pitch throughout. What he has done, however, is to create imaginative visions and recollectons within the mind of the doomed slave and yet present the poignancy of the recent massacres and the impending execution. Styron is a great stylist and a perfectionist, but he certainly is not guilty of trying to present a cosmic view of the South or the declining prosperity of Virginia Tidewater. Criticisms of Styron's use of Nat's memory to describe landscapes are unfounded. The author's sensitivity towards the setting adds much richness...
...wise words for would-be writers: "Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent." But always the book's main interest is the author. It traces the rise, the peaking out and the decline of Ernest Hemingway as stylist...
...editor, Luce was no fine and fancy stylist. Instead of smoothing out a story, he would often advise "roughening it up" with abrupt transitions that might make the piece less readable but -he thought-more difficult to forget. Editing for him was mainly cutting out blocks of words; a Luce-edited issue of TIME was usually identifiable to insiders by its staccato style...