Word: lucidities
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...discoverers in this science of intelligibility, I. A. Richards (TIME, July 15), C. K. Ogden, Count Alfred Korzybski, are as unintelligible to plain readers as the popularizers (such as Stuart Chase) are misleading. Aldous Huxley's short essay, though it says little that is new, is the first lucid and reliable introduction to the subject...
...Ross from the Lamb literary remains, from scraps of correspondence, there is little ordeal in the day-to-day doings of Bridget Elia (Lamb's literary name for his sister). What emerges is a singularly tender brother-&-sister relationship, of much charm, grace, fortitude, patience. In her long lucid intervals, Mary Lamb led a lively life: The Ordeal of Bridget Elia is a lively record...
...this warfare of the mind, Edmond Taylor's book is a lucid, cool and informative study. As Paris correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, Taylor watched the onset of Nazi psychological warfare, analyzed its effects on the French Government and people, learned what forms it took...
...artistry of a G.B.S., but because he is simply unable to say what he means at all, have there been complaints. Last spring the Committee on the Use of English advised automatic rejection by all departments of papers and examinations failing to reach a minimum standard of clear and lucid prose. Hence the new emphasis on "practical" writing--on English not as an artistic end but as a medium of common expression...
Lean, black-a-vised, hollow-eyed, Monsignor Sheen is a persuasive, lucid speaker, with a well-cultivated voice, who can make religion sensible and attractive to great masses of people. Though his official job is teaching philosophy at the Catholic University in Washington, he fills 150 speaking dates a year. Three weeks ago he did not let an attack of grippe keep him from engagements in St. Louis and Cleveland, nor a fever of 102° prevent him from preaching at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan, where for the tenth year he was Lenten orator...