Word: lucidity
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...important respect, however, he is distinguished from these modernists. In some of his more lucid moments he does succeed in following one rule we expect, and quite justly I believe, all writers to adhere to--namely, to communicate to his readers an idea or set of connected ideas. Lacking for the most part any suggestion of a plot his stories, if they can be called such, do present a series of vivid and intensely vital experiences. "I am an Armenian," he says. "I have no idea what it is like to be an Armenian or what it is like...
...President Hoover simmered over his 50,000 words for a year. As books, Bertrand Russell's is incomparably the best of the three, but more readers will prefer to hear what Authors Wallace and Hoover have to say for and against the New Deal rather than listen to the lucid skepticism of an outlander. Well aware of the wind's direction, the Book-of-the-Month Club has chosen both New Frontiers and The Challenge to Liberty as its October selection. All three books run according to predictable form. For a new deal in government Wallace says Yes; Hoover...
...debate between freedom and organization, he goes back 100 years, writes a history of political change from 1814 to 1914. No believer in "scientific" history, or in the Carlylean doctrine of heroes either, he has made his book a judicious blend of historical analysis and biography. His lucid irony does not prevent him from stating many a downright unusual opinion. Of Metternich (whom he calls a pompous prig) he says: "His fundamental political principle was simple, that the Powers that be are ordained of God, and must therefore be supported on pain of impiety. The fact that...
...principle he stresses is supremely important; clear and dispassionate deliberation of the problems at present besetting mankind. And it is a truth recognized by all who have lived the academic life for any length of time that it presents better than any other the opportunity for just such lucid thought...
Only the tail end of the Jeans presidential discourse was concerned with science in industry. His topic was "The New World-Picture of Modern Physics"?a picture he has displayed to some 300,000 readers in thin, lucid books. Sir James again led his hearers over the trail from the comfortable Victorian universe of jelly-like ethers, billiard-ball particles, gears and levers to the disconcerting, fantastic universe built by Rutherford, Planck. Bohr, Einstein. Heisenberg. Schrodinger, Dirac and others where the electron dances beyond space and time in a field of mathematical formulae...