Word: prose
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Padan Aram prose board member Eleanor Stafford '92 said the magazine shies away from publishing more than one piece per issue by a single author. Stafford said the magazine wanted "to prevent the creation of a set `repertoire' of Padan Aram writers...
Leland writes well. His prose, if occasionally too explicit, flows easily. We never find ourselves trudging through sentences or checking for antecedents, and we are even blessed by a few poetic passages. His desciption of an elderly patient's doctor is especially lyrical: "...he was just as she imagined Mrs. Voxburg's doctor would be, as blasted of history as Mrs. Voxburg herself, readable only in the broadest terms...
...someone who simply wants a handout. Those who actually read the paper are unlikely to be bowled over by its literary merits. The bulk of the text consists of breezy, opinionated pieces signed by a motley assortment of celebrities and business executives. The most interesting items are the prose and poems penned by homeless contributors...
Despite the literary aspirations of those big names, the trend in sports coverage almost everywhere is away from elegant prose and toward number crunching: in sports, there is a statistic for practically everything. The message has not been lost on the National. Says columnist Kindred: "We hope to have pretty writing. We also hope to have every ugly box score you have ever seen." The paper will offer localized editions wherever it is sold -- for starters in New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles. After a gradual five-year expansion, seemingly modeled on that of USA Today, it plans...
...author's identity. Could it be Robert Gates, deputy director of the National Security Council, whose hard-line views on the Soviets upset Bush Administration moderates? (Gates said no.) Or Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter's tough-talking National Security Adviser? Others pointed to the piece's stilted, formal prose as persuasive evidence that the author is most likely a foreigner, possibly a Russian. The editors at Daedalus weren't talking. Neither...