Word: lucidities
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...Nick Hornby, though, the affectation is used to excellent effect. Hornby, 38, is worshipped in Britain for his 1992 book, Fever Pitch, a humorous memoir about his life as a soccer fan. In this first novel, High Fidelity (Riverhead Books; $21.95; 323 pages), he demonstrates his enviable talent for lucid, laconic writing...
...should not get the impression that Kennedy limits her discussion to dogs. She is quite lucid on the subject of Rousseau's urinary tract, for instance. Commenting on Rousseau's fear that a piece of a broken catheter had lodged there, Kennedy writes, "but it makes a certian kind of sense that Rousseau, starting with a lifelong urinary problem, would then graft the fantasy of a baby inside his penis onto his illness...
Whether you agree with Jackson or not, he is a riveting speaker who makes his points in lucid and direct fashion, and always makes his speeches relevant to current events. Even Monday, in a speech which was low-key by his standards, he kept the audience captivated and focused. Mansfield, on the other hand, trotted out the same tired and pathetic arguments against affirmative action that he probably gives in his daily lectures. Nothing new here. Jackson's comment to Mansfield probably summed up most of the audience's sentiment: "After hearing you, I'm not surprised white...
...over the book as a symbol of the true artist, the estate to which Grade aspires: "He was the first real writer I knew, because he was the first to have the midnight disease; to have the rocking chair and the faithful bottle of bourbon and the staring eye, lucid with insomnia even in the daytime...
...Clinton White House is often criticized for its inability to articulate lucid, precise foreign policy objectives that can be applied to the entire gamut of negging international conflicts. Yet that criticism fails to acknowledge that in the post-Cold War era, it is utterly impossible to define foreign policy in terms of inviolate formulas...