Word: prolix
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the passion-tinged descriptions of male writers. One notorious McCarthy story, she writes, "is about contraception in the way, for instance, that Frank Norris's The Octopus is about wheat. There is an air of imparting information-like whaling in Melville." Reviewing Simone de Beauvoir's prolix attack on male imperialism. The Second Sex, Hardwick pricks its Utopian pretension that women are stronger and better than men in a commonsensical line: "Any woman who has ever had her wrist twisted by a man recognizes a fact of nature as humbling as a cyclone to a frail tree...
...more significant than a new sense of freedom from the prejudices of the home office." Strangely, the Review itself seems unwilling to be unequivocal in its critical columns. After examining Dow-Jones's disappointing new weekly newspaper, the National Observer, the Review ticks off numerous flaws ("unbelievably prolix . . .cluttered . . . fillers of trifling import"), then warmly salutes the new paper: "Deserving of congratulations all around." In the same spirit of charity, it finds the San Francisco Chronicle "the big-city newspaper of the future," then adds: "It just doesn't print much news...
Died. Henry Morton Robinson, 62, onetime Reader's Digest editor and best-selling novelist, whose prolix portraits included purveyors of religion (The Cardinal) as well as purveyors of bourbon (Water of Life), and who confessed himself "delighted" with being called slick; of complications from burns suffered last month in a bathtub; in New York City. A protean penman, Robinson's nonfiction ranged from Private Virtue, Public Good, an anti-Rooseveltian treatise later reprinted in 1,000,000 copies after it appeared as a Digest article in 1938, to A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake, an exercise in academic...
...stoicism and the man-of-the-world expertise, there is a vein of provincial naivete, and the celebrated bare style is really an elaborate piece of purl and plain knitting, learned in part from that fancy needlework artist, Gertrude Stein. Far from being economical, it is in fact more prolix than, say, Thomas Mann's high mandarin, a fact proved some years ago by parodists in the New Statesman and Nation, who vainly attempted to translate a passage from Death in Venice into 150 words of Hemingway. It could not be done...
...toys and first watches, on smashing the subject he is treating to see how it works." ¶"The overworked, driven person or class is seldom creative, while leisure, even wasteful leisure, may end creatively." ¶ "Goethe owed much to his not being afraid of uttering commonplaces, and of being prolix and even dull ... Is ponderosity, then, something that impresses and inspires respect even when we carry away from it boredom and confusion?" ¶ "Athens too had its folks who had gramophones beside them, or jazz, or bridge to keep talk away. But in our time the dread of conversation...