Word: lucidity
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...since that earliest cave dweller, feeling the pangs of creation within him, scratched upon the bones of one animal the sensuous visage of another, have the children of dream gone unchallenged by many. Is it that after the lucid history of centuries the reason, the merit, the meaning, the value of art is still doubtful? Remembering Greece, and Athens that should make Rome vital, and Byzantium that should trumpet Italy out of stupid darkness, and the Latin Renaissance that should succour Europe even to the present moment, can any pen deny those who would look upon football as a momentary...
...college years are not the time to form highly trained specialists; that comes later; the main object of the undergraduate should be to acquire habits of intellectual application, of clear and accurate thought, and of lucid expression...
...Roosevelt, ever vigorous and logical, threw the whole-weight of his passionate personality and far-reaching fame into the scale for righteousness. From the first, his fervid and uncompromising loyalty to Allied principles, finding expression in lucid eloquence, has been like a furnace keeping the nation in an heroic glow of patriotic exaltation...
...college man the way of preparation should be extremely lucid. Ours is the business of acquiring all the knowledge possible--of stuffing into the thinking tank every shred of accredited information available. As university students, as mind specialists, we are the light of the world. If we fail in the attainment of understanding, upon whom is the world going to rely for brain power? There can be but one answer; it is axiomatic, in fact, an aphorism. We must not fail...
...deep and lucid mind we mourn, An eye that on the sun of truth had gazed, Nor ever turned away like others dazed-- A soul that travelled over paths unworn, And searched the hidden deeps and knew no bourne, A soul that yet its glance in wonder raised, Like children at a miracle amazed, And plucked white flowers out of weed and thorn. We mourn, yet know that in a rarer clime He dwells with sages and with seraphim Free from the fetters and the weight of clay And from the passions of a gloomy time-- And we shall never...