Word: clearer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Isabel Bishop's paintings have the quality of forms remembered, this was a clearer and more solid memory. The black skirt of one girl and the orange jacket of the other were definite and strong notes in the composition. And not only were the figures classically balanced but their lackadaisical, toe-swinging pose was sharply observed and evocative...
Author Roberts leans heavily on Semmes's autobiography, gives no clearer picture of Semmes than of the times. For all his tributes to Semmes's greatness, the raider is likely to be remembered as the destroyer of the graceful clipper ships that carried with them to the bottom U. S. hopes of becoming a leading maritime power...
This book, whose purpose was to start a new method of thinking so that eventually people might understand each other better, was revolutionary, obscure even to specialists. Ever since then Richards and his followers have tried to make themselves clearer. The more they write, the harder it is for laymen to understand them. Interpretation in Teaching is no plate glass window even for savants...
Readers of one masterpiece, The Education of Henry Adams, know how enigmatic he seems in his autobiography. But readers of his letters get a clearer picture of his wit, the range of his interests, the depths of his despondency. Eight years ago a 552-page collection of them carried his story up to 1892. Last week another collection of 672 pages carried it to his death...
...Sister Eileen, 26-year-old Ruth McKenney harks back to that happy period with the air of a mellow oldster. Originally published in The New Yorker, the 14 sketches in My Sister Eileen give a cloudy picture of Eileen, a clearer view of Ruth herself, a better account of girlish misadventures during elocution lessons, bird studies in a girls' camp, a correspondence with a French boy in a high-school class in French, the embarrassments of waiting on table in a Fred Harvey lunchroom, interviews for a college paper...