Tanizaki, 123–124abstractions, 58–59, 165; as “things,” 32–33, 135, 139–140, 142, 164–166
Adams, robert Martin: Bad Mouth, 159–160
Addison, Joseph, and richard Steele: Spectator, 232
admissions essay, 220 “
African American” and “Afro-American,” Thurgood Marshall’s discussion of, 175
Agamemnon, 92
anaphora, 66
argument, presentation as tacit, 28, 166, 209
Aristotle: Rhetoric, 68–69, 235
Auerbach, Erich: Mimesis, 178–185
Austen, Jane: letter, 193, Pride and Prejudice, 47–48, 182–183
authenticity, 39, 42, 52–53, 133
Barnes, Julian: “Letter from London,” 82
Barthelme, Donald: “Daumier,” 155–157
Bentham, Jeremy: The Book of Fallacies, 33
Bible, the, King James translation of, 12
Blake, William, 91; The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 125–127
blending, 193
Borges, Jorge Luis: “Los traductores de las 1001 noches,” 138–139, 237
Brooks, Louise: Lulu in Hollywood, 4, 174–175
Bull, John, and John Ferrand, Jr.: Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds, Eastern Region, 109–111, 231
Bunting, Glenn F. See Frantz, Douglas
Burke, Kenneth: A Rhetoric of Motives, 93
Chandler, Raymond: The Big Sleep, 206
Chastel, André: Le Mythe de la Renaissance 1420–1520, 136–137, 164
Cicero: Orator, 67
clarity: in classic style, 3, 32, 76, 167; in practical style, 76, 167; as a vice, 169–170
classic joint attention, 190. See also Exercise 1
classic style, 2–4, 10–12, 115; inadequacies of, 98–102; “last-third” test for, 81–82; as performance, 34–36; prototype of, 16; recognizing, 12–17; romantic style, compared to, 86–89, 180–185; universality of, 3–4;
cognitive compression, 198
Colomb, Gregory. See Williams, Joseph M.
commerce, classic style adapted for, 112–115
communication, act of, 191
concept of style, 7–12, 115; in art history, 20–21; in books on writing, 22; in musicology, 19–20;
“copy” theory, the, 100–102
Crews, Frederick: The Critics Bear It Away, 233
Croll, Morris: Style, Rhetoric, and Rhythm, 235
Danforth, Loring: The Death Rituals of Rural Greece, 74–75
Declaration of independence, 33, 40–43, 48, 124
de Gaulle, charles, 104
Demetrius, 66–68; On Style, 67, 89
Derrida, Jacques, 13
Descartes, rené, 4, 13–14, 24–26, 31, 46, 57, 97, 99, 100, 101, 124–125; Discours de la méthode, 25–26, 57, 124, 153–154
describing is not presenting, 207–208
Dodd, c. H.: The Interpretation of the Fourth Gospel, 48–50, 52, 133–134, 164
Donaghy, Michael: “Machines,” 72
Dragoon Tie, 112–116
elements: the alphabet as a set of, 18–19; periodic tables of (in chemistry), 18; of style in writing, 17–19, 21–24;
Eliot, T. S., 13
Erdös, Paul, 226
Euclid: The Elements of Geometry, 17–19, 22, 232, 235
Exercise 1, 189
Exercise 2, 194
Exercise 3, 195
Exercise 4, 196
Exercise 5, 196
Exercise 6, 200
Exercise 7, 206
Exercise 8, 207
Exercise 9, 208
Exercise 10, 209
Exercise 11, 210
Exercise 12, 211
Exercise 13, 215
Exercise 14, 216
Exercise 15, 217
Exercise 16, 219
Exercise 17, 220
Exercise 18, 220
Exercise 19, 221
Exercise 20, 222
Exercise 21, 222
Exercise 22, 224
Exercise 23, 225
Exercise 24, 226
Farrand, John, Jr., See Bull, John
Feynman, richard P.: QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter, 117–119
Fontenay, Abbey of, in Michelin Green Guide, 224
Foucault, Michel, 234; “What is an Author?”, 51–52
Frantz, Douglas, and Glenn F. Bunting: “Weathering the Storm, Cajun-Style,” 246 note to page 116
Friedländer, Max J.: Die Altniederländische Malerei, 141–142
Fulbright, J. William, 9
Geertz, Clifford: “Thick Description,” 63–64, 148–150; Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author, 74–75
Greece (Michelin Green Guide), 82
Greenhouse, Steven: “The Fed’s Master of obfuscation,” 169 Greenspan, Alan, 169–172
Guinness, Sir Alec, 211
Hardy, G. H., 146–147
hedges, 35
Hodges, Andrew: Alan Turing: The Enigma, 146–147
Homer: Iliad, 92–93
image-schemas, 62–66, 150–151, 155–157, 163, 167, 172, 242 note to page 66; and roles, 66
inference, 195
isaiah, 90–91
Jefferson, Thomas, 4, 23, 31, 33, 124–125. See also Declaration of Independence
Jeremiah, 90
Johnson, Mark, 242 note to page 66
Johnson, Samuel, 236; and British journalism, 232; “Preface to Shakespeare,” 14, 37, 67, 167
joint attention, 189
Jouvenel, Bertrand de: “introduction” to The Peloponnesian War, 147–148
Judt, Tony: Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945, 235
Kant, Immanuel, 101 Keegan, John: The Second World War, 235; Six Armies in Normandy, 235
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 67
La Bruyère, Jean de, 13, 73, 128–129, 232; Les Caractères, 128, 232
Lacan, Jacques 13
Lafayette, Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La verne, comtesse de, 3, 129, 144–146, 165; La princesse de Clèves, 144, 232
Lakoff, George: More Than Cool Reason, 243 note to Page 66
Lambach, ruth Baer: “colony Girl,” 82
Larkin, Philip: “This Be The verse,” 157–158
La rochefoucauld, François vi, duc de, 13, 31, 46, 155–156, 168; compared to Euclid, 232; compared to Samuel Johnson, 15; description of Madame de chevreuse by, 14, 32, 47, 64, 159–161; Maximes, 31, 149–150, 153–155, 232; Mémoires, 14–16, 159–161, 177
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 102; Traité elementaire de chemie, 18, 153–155
Le Brun, Jean-Baptiste-Pierre: Galerie des peintres flammands, hollaindais et allemands, 1–3
Lehmann-Haupt, christopher, 162–163
Liebling, A. J., 28, 102, 168, 185, 236–238; Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris, 82, 120–121, 236; “cross-channel Trip,” 130–135; “The Great State,” 161–166; The Sweet Science, 28
lists, 217–219
Longinus: On the Sublime, 66, 68–71
Los Angeles Times, 116
Malcolm X, 103 Mâle, Émile: Religious Art in France:
The Late Middle Ages, 20–21
Marshall, Thurgood, 175
mathematics as high art, 98; compared to classic stance on thought and language, 151–152
McKeon, richard: “Philosophy and
Method,” 117–119
Milton, John: Areopagitica, 166–169
Mitchell, W.J.T., 249 note to page 152; “Spatial Form in Literature: Toward a General Theory,” 152
Montagné, Prosper: Larousse Gastronomique, 233
Montaigne, Michel d’Eyquem, seigneur de, 57, 176–177
Morrison, Toni: Playing in the Dark, 162–165
Mueller, Janel: The Native Tongue and the Word, 63, 132–135
Murrin, Michael: The Allegorical Epic, 117–118
Museum, the:
Robert Martin Adams, 159–161
anonymous medical brochure, 116
Erich Auerbach, 178–185
Jane Austen, 182–183
Donald Barthelme, 155–157
William Blake, 125–127
Jorge Luis Borges, 138–139
Louise Brooks, 174
John Bull and John Farrand, Jr.,109–111
André Chastel, 136–137
René Descartes, 124–125, 153–154
Dragoon Tie, 112–116
Richard P. Feynman, 117–119
Max J. Friedländer, 141–142
Clifford Geertz, 148–150
Alan Greenspan, 169–172
Andrew Hodges, 146–147
Thomas Jefferson, 124–125
Bertrand de Jouvenel, 147–148
Jean de La Bruyère, 128–129
Madame de Lafayette, 144–146
Philip Larkin, 157–158
La Rochefoucauld, 149–150, 153–155, 159–161
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, 153–155
A. J. Liebling, 130–135, 161–166
Los Angeles Times, 116
Thurgood Marshall, 175
Richard McKeon, 117–119
John Milton, 166–169
W.J.T. Mitchell, 152
Toni Morrison, 162–165
Janel Mueller, 132–135
Michael Murrin, 117–118
Michael Oakeshott, 149–150
Blaise Pascal, 125–127
Suzanne C. Pipes, 152
Alexander Pope, 149–150
Princeton Memorandum, 172–173
Louis-Adolphe Régnier, 177
Waverley Root, 140–143
Sainte-Beuve, 176
Saint-Simon, 178–185
Madame de Sévigné, 128–130
Bernard Shaw, 150–152
Wendy Steiner, 141–143
Junichir Tanizaki, 123–124
Mark Twain, 120–122
Thorstein Veblen, 172–173
Oscar Wilde, 148–149
Necker cube, 127
network, mental, 191
Newton, Sir isaac, 17; Opticks, 221
New York Times, The, 162–164, 169, 175
novelty, 215
Oakeshott, Michael: Experience and Its
Modes, 149–150
obituaries in classic style, 221
odysseus, 92–94
Pascal, Blaise: 13, 31, 38, 43, 46, 48, 125–127, 129, 142, 176–177, 179, 185; Lettres provinciales, 38–39, 43, 48, 185, 232–233; Penseés, 125–127
Pearce, Jeremy: obituary for John L. Bull, 221 perception and inference contrasted, 195
Perec, Georges: La vie mode d’emploi, classic lists, 218 Pericles’ Funeral oration, 67, 94–96
persuasion, 31, 48, 65, 70, 97, 113–114
Pipes, Suzanne c.: “rembrandt: Old Man with a Gold Chain,” 152
Pope, Alexander: “Design” for An Essay on Man, 149–150; An Essay on Criticism prejudices, 225
presentation, 2; and argument, 3, 147–148; contrasted to description, 207–208; as disguised assertion, 121–122, 132, 147
Princeton University Press Memorandum, 172–175
Proclus, 232
Proust, Marcel, 46; A la recherche du temps perdu, 51, 86; and romantic style, 86–87
Putnam, Hilary, 100–102; Reason, Truth and History, 245 note to page 100
Rawson, Claude, 235–236; “The Character of Swift’s Satire,” 235
real estate pitches, 222
Régnier, Louis-Adolphe: Lexique de la langue du Cardinal de Retz, 177
restaurant reviews in classic style, 222
résumés, 219
Retz, Jean-François-Paul de Gondi, cardinal de, 13, 129, 179; Mémoires, 177
Rhetorica ad Herennium, 68
rhetoricians, classical, 67–69
Rivarol, Antoine, 13
Root, Waverley: The Food of France, 37, 140–143
rosen, charles: The Classical Style:
Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, 19–20, 22–23 “rules,” 67
Sainte-Beuve, Charles-Augustin: Port-Royal, 176 Saint-Simon, Louis de rouvois, duc de: Mémoires, 178–185
scenes, model and actual, 39, 112–115, 164, 168
science, classic style in, writing, 220
Sévigné, Marie de rabutin-chantal, marquise de, 4, 13, 128–130, 142, 165, 185; Lettres, 128–130
Shaw, Bernard, 7–8, 158, 232; Back to Methuselah, 150–152; speech and writing, 214
Simpson, Alan: Mastering WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS, 235
speech: forensic, 68; and writing, 37–43, 166–170
Steiner, Wendy: The Colors of Rhetoric,141–143
Stevens, Wallace: “The Poem That Took the Place of the Mountain,” 58
stress position, 64
Strunk, William, Jr., and E. B. White: The Elements of Style, 21–22, 67, 78
style, 104–105; adolescent, 68; as answers to a series of fundamental questions, 19; bloated, 68; books on, 21; contemplative, 82–89; elevated, 68; and etiquette, 102–105; grand, middle, and simple, 68; high, middle, and low, 68; implicit in action, 8; intellectual foundations of, 235–236; oratorical, 91–97, 114; plain, 16, 71–73, 89; practical, 75–81, 89, 112–114; prophetic, 89–91; reflexive, 73–75; the restrained and the elevated, 89; restrained, elevated, elegant, and forcible, 68; romantic, 58, 86–89; and styles, 22, 66–71, 167, 185; sublime, 68–70; and substance, 7; swollen, slack, meagre, 68. See also classic style; concept of style
styles, 9–10; derived from conceptual stands, 2, 115, 235–236; general, 113, 116, 170; special, 169–172
Exercises. See Exercises
Tutorials. See Tutorials
Tanizaki, Junichir, 4; The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi, 123–124
texts, “pointed,” 79
Thucydides, 102, 185; The Peloponnesian War, 29, 94–97
travel writing in classic prose, 224
Turing, Alan, 146–147
Turner, Mark: More Than Cool Reason, 242 note to page 66; Reading Minds, 242 note to page 66
Beyond Classic Joint Attention, 191
Blending Scenes, 213
Lost in Words, 214
Onset and Dismount, 214
Two Steps to Classic Style, 197
Twain, Mark, 4, 120–122, 231, 233, 236, 238; Autobiography, 225; and cognitive compression, 199; Life on the Mississippi, 120–121, 233, 236, 238; and the Sir Walter disease, 236
Veblen, Thorstein: The Theory of the Leisure Class, 172–173
Wall Street Journal, The, 60
Washington Post, The, 175
White, E. B., 182, 237; “Letter from the South” (“The ring of Time”), 83–86
Wilde, oscar: The Importance of Being
Williams, Joseph M.: Style (with Gregory colomb), 21–23, 67, 78–79, 80–81 writing, 10–12; and classic style, 235–236; conflation of, with “English,” 102–103; school and college, 77; technical, 234–235; and thinking, 59–64
Yeats, William Butler: The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats, 7