Word: lucidities
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...badly, depending on your moral inclinations.) Her emotional abandon and her variety of facial expressions make the captions largely unnecessary, and the translation are quite idiomatic, but at the times when captions were essential for unscrambling French blasphemy or innuendo, they were succinctly reduced to "! ! !" Expressive, but not very lucid...
...expounding the theory of Marxism, Presbyterian Miller is at his lucid best. Readers who have long shuddered at the jabberwocky of "dialectical materialism" will find this book's opening chapters a clear, practically painless exposition of Marxism's fundamentals. But Author Miller's efforts to find common denominators between the Communist Manifesto and the New Testament are less successful. Christians, says he, would be better Christians for studying Marx because Christians must act in the world...
...theory of Spengler (whom Toynbee, nevertheless, calls "a man of genius") that civilizations are tragic organisms, growing inexorably toward predetermined dooms, Toynbee advanced a dryly lucid counter-proposition: civilizations are not things-in-themselves, but simply the relations that exist between men living in a given society at a given moment of history...
...Pulitzer Prize in 1922. In that year appeared the first printed copies of a mountainous adventure in English prose, called Ulysses, written by an Irishman in exile. In that year also a young man from Illinois began writing in Paris short stories in a new style, hard and lucid, that were published in a book called In Our Time; another young man, from Missouri, had published, in London, a strange, rich, deathly poem called The Waste Land. Between World Wars I and II the work of these men and a few others made the most vigorous literature in English. Neither...
Swell Guy (Mark Hellinger; Universal-International) is a full-length portrait of a slob (Sonny Tufts). He is a famed, chaotically incompetent war correspondent who can fool practically everybody in the postwar world except his fellow reporters, his mother and, in rare, lucid moments, himself...