Word: lucid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most valuable of tlie books on the shooting war itself was General Eisenhower's Crusade in Europe, a lucid account of Allied strategy, written in serviceable Service English. To be assured of just how good it was, readers had only to turn to Field Marshal Montgomery's soldierly but dry-as-dust Normandy to the Baltic, which covered much of the same ground as Crusade. There were official and semi-official Service histories by the score, but the best to set beside Ike's book were Fletcher Pratt's expert, well-written and exciting The Marines...
Resounding plaudits to TIME for a remarkably lucid and informative article on psychiatry [TIME, Oct. 25]. If I may be permitted so metaphysical an expression, my faith in journalism as a vital factor in public education is renewed...
...hard to follow. The good ones, for my money, were "The Innocents," by Adrienne Rich '51 and "That Time Removes," by Anne Tolstoi '49. Both authors have a sure grip on the language they use, and on their media in general. Miss Rich's poem is particularly lucid, and she has created an image toward the end that is in itself one of the finest bits of writing to appear since the war in Cambridge's undergraduate literary magazines...
...have helped them, no matter what the intent.) The modern version is applied with more humanity, no more understanding of what makes it work. But patients who are so sick that they cannot talk at all may be able to talk after shock. Psychiatrists try to use such brief lucid periods to start helpful treatment...
Somewhere in one of West Point's official poop-sheets there are a few lucid paragraphs about the purposes of athletics. The gist of the idea is that it develops leadership and character, and building these two features is the Academy's raison d'etre...