Word: lucidities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Diplomatist; Curzon: The Last Phase) are centered around World War I's Versailles Conference, to which Nicolson was a delegate. More recently, he has been giving British radio listeners a blow-by-blow account of 1946's Paris Peace Conference. Few readers of this timely, lucid study of post-Napoleonic peacemaking will be able to resist drawing analogies between then and now-which is just what Author Nicolson warns them not to overdo...
...Thomas Browne called them "vulgar errors." Said Francis Bacon: "Men rest not in false apprehensions without absurd and inconsequent deductions." As Essayist Logan Pearsall Smith put it, even the most lucid brains harbor "nests of woolly caterpillars...
...John Faustus, Charles McFarland played a difficult part with tremendous energy and understanding. At first a little stiff, he moved on to become actively lucid and supple. George Kyron, in the role of Mephistopheles, supplied an efficacious verve in facial characteristic and vocal bearing. Richard Kilbride and Harry Cooper, as sixteenth century comedians, were really funny. But the device employed most efficiently by the company was in the lighting, handled by Duvey himself, which served to heighten every moment and provide for the rapid change of scenes so essential to Elizabethan drama...
...Jeans had stuck to his astronomical knitting, only scientists would ever have heard of him. But he was that great rarity, a first-rate scientist with a command of lucid English. Starting in the late 1920s, he wrote a series of best-selling books* which brought the new discoveries of science, unblemished by errors or indignity, down to the popular level...
...other people's lives, one could write a fair sized novel, but that isn't the most interesting part of it all. What really excites the imagination and stirs the blood is the fact that such a person walks the streets unmanacled, breathes the free air and during his lucid moments actually holds a position of responsibility in our society. As a matter of fact, there are many such. You meet people like him every...