Word: lucid
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...first was the Revolution, which fixed American neoclassicism as the speech of elevated visual discourse and gave American artists heroic themes from their own history and experience. The second was the discovery of great space and, within its vastness, of unique nature. To this we owe the lucid, entranced sea visions of such painters as Lane and Heade. Theirs was the distinctive language of American luminism, with the surface of sea and sky like a membrane of pure contemplation, every pebble and mast distinct, caught in a kind of sacramental hush...
...travel first to West Germany, and then to East Germany, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, etc. to discover the true implication of the term "satellite country." In the spirit of Orwell's 1984 and Errol T. Louis' "Endpaper," words have a way of losing their distinction so as to make lucid thinking impossible...
...genuinely want it to stop the method adopted hardly matters." "Political chaos," he continued to stress, "is connected with the decay of language . . . one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end." To that end, Orwell devoted his life. His work endures, as lucid and vigorous as the day it was written. The proper way to remember George Orwell, finally, is not as a man of numbers-1984 will pass, not Nineteen Eighty-Four-but as a man of letters, who wanted to change the world by changing the word. A word that surely requires alteration...
...comedy than with romance--scenes that are not maudlin tend to be pathetic. There is a pronounced effort to make the cast look as unappealing as possible, presumably to add a comic touch and to scoff convention. "Who does your wardrobe, Quasimodo?" Jason asks Phoebe in one of his lucid moments...
...lifers' supposed "consistent disregard for the ultimate well-being of the mother or the fetus." Ms. Idelson is completely right in saying that the mother's "right" to an abortion and the fetus's right to life stand in contradiction my compliments to her for such a lucid observation. Simply put, anti-abortionists, for logical reasons, have chosen to favor the fetus's right over the mother's. To say, however, that we therefore "discount the concerns of the living" is an act of journalistic or editorial hyperbole. Of the two parties involved, the mother and the fetus, only...