Word: lucidities
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...letter was two years old, but last week it was must reading for most politicians-and Republicans in particular. Sent by Michigan's Governor George Romney to Barry Goldwater after the G.O.P.'s disastrous 1964 showing, it explained in twelve lucid pages just why Romney had declined to support the party's presidential ticket. Its contents were a secret until the New York Times obtained and published a copy from sources whose identity remains a mystery. Highlights...
...pleasure in Lion Rampant lies in Carter Wilson's "Instance of Atavism in the Case of Adrienne." Through a tight 2000 words, we experience a cold March morning in the mind of a girl grad student. Though superficial action roots her in downtown Syracuse, her memory and imagination yield lucid vignettes of infinite variety; at one point we cut to Rimini; at another, a recollection of her lover's anti-psychiatric bias prompts a flashback, and these changes in locale from an exhilarating narrative texture...
...Tombless Dead) out of their makeshift warehouse prison except when the Vichy officers want them to leave. The magnificent cage of playwright-philosophe Sartre, director Babe, and designer William Schroeder is inescapable for the actors. For the audience it is a powerful philosophical paradigm that is often more lucid than the words exchanged inside...
Sometimes The Victors confuses you with details and the seemingly pointless fluttering of some thin characters. But this is only outside the cage. Inside, Sartre and Babe avoid allowing the lines of the play to wander off from each other and the result is a fascinating, lucid view of the tombless dead and the entombed living...
...itself that the truth is known as far as it can be discovered." The Warren Commission had an unlimited budget and access to all the investigative talents and tools of the Federal Government. With the help of a full-time staff of 26-mostly legal experts-it published a lucid, tightly written 888-page report that was a compendium of 26 volumes (17,815 pages) of testimony and evidential exhibits gathered over ten months...