Word: lucidities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Employers in Fear." Day after day, Clement Attlee sat slouched on his spine, taking in five-minute speeches from scores of delegates, speeches for the most part well organized, lucid and obviously sincere. Behind him on the platform sat Mrs. Attlee, knitting. She likes short speeches, even when her husband makes them. Sir Stafford Cripps, whom some call an economic dictator, sat modestly behind a row of executive committee members-he is not a member of the executive-and was not invited to speak. Nor did he ask to take part...
Finally, the Student Government has been wise in announcing a clear-cut policy on tallying the votes, making it plain that only the activities fee issue will be forced to reach the total majority requirement for a final decision. The Student Government has provided lucid directions; the simplest measure of compliance by the Radcliffe student body will settle three troublesome questions this spring...
...shops to buy? Cripps was characteristically clear and crisp. M.P.s did not like all he said, but they enjoyed the performance. When Cripps had finished his 2¼-hour speech, Winston Churchill (who had listened with eyes shut and feet resting on a table) rose and said: "... A comprehensive, lucid statement. ... It was refreshing...
Occasionally one reads an article which is so very striking for the new facts it presents, or for the clarity of presentation of past events, that it causes one to sit up and take notice. Such an article was your lucid "The Battlefields of Peace" [TIME, March...
Music, with Echoes. Matisse's revolutionary synthesis through the years has become increasingly lucid, brilliant and gay. Now his subject matter means little; the colors are the thing. And each color, linked in loose, insistent rhythms of linear composition, sounds in the eye like a separate instrument: trumpet, cello, cymbals, oboe, harp and clarinet. Freely transforming nature, the paintings resound with symbolic echoes...