Word: lucid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Strange Life of Ivan Osokin, a lucid little novel, the hero is given a chance to find out. The story opens at the Kursk station in Moscow on a bright April day in 1902. Osokin, a young man of 26, is seeing Zinaida and her mother off to the Crimea. Zinaida is piqued with Ivan because he will not go with her, but he is too poor to go and too stiff to tell her the reason. The train leaves; Ivan is left alone; he feels for a moment as if the event had happened before. In the next...
...written carelessly. "The Prisoner," by Roger Princerd, is the high point of the magazine, owing its success to a straightforward and unpretentious style, and to having the solid basis of one realistic incident. The story of a stowaway being back to Poland from America, it remains objective and lucid throughout...
...Forever Amber" the film is basically "Forever Amber" the novel, condensed and emasculated. It still remains a lusty, busty, brawling, bawdy, inaccurate picture of Restoration England, and of a heroine busy from bedroom to bedroom. Naturally, the play-by-play accounts are a bit loss lucid and even the two-and-a-half hour running time doesn't permit inclusion of more than a token few of the endless assortment of husbands&lovers&pregnancies&such. But what you have left is still far more than enough...
...question of why Virginia was penalized three times for delaying the game. Just think of yourself in quarterback McCary's brogans during those huddles. When the boys asked him what the next play was, he couldn't very well come out and commit himself in such an environment of lucid confusion...
Beyond Diplomacy. If Fischer sounds bemused as a Gandhi-man, he is somewhat more lucid as a critic of Stalin. To him, the "political war is visible and tangible. Every day's newspaper is a battle bulletin of that war. ... It is easy to say 'We must meet Russia halfway.' We have met Russia 90 percent of the way. But Russia does not meet us even 10 percent of the way. . . . The entire problem of the relations between Russia and America, or between dictatorship and the democracies, has gone beyond the field of diplomacy. . . . This...