Word: lucidly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...history at Harvard, served until 1945 as a high official in the Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek, and has now retired to California. His book centers on one all-important fact about the Chinese Communist regime: that it is here to stay. Writing in a colorless but lucid style, the author first describes how, during the 1930's, the Communists managed to win the active support of China's peasantry, thus succeeding where Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang party had failed. Interesting, ableit somewhat chilling to an American, are the farsighted measures make sure that Peking is taking...
...determined that she lived in St. Clair Shores, Mich., had arrived in Washington two days earlier by bus, that since 1932 she had periodically been in mental hospitals. She was packed off to Gallinger Hospital for observation because, as Presidential Press Secretary Hagerty explained it, she was "not quite lucid...
...Author Aymé himself never gets involved. He looks on with malice, with wit, and with a nice sense of just how much his characters can do about things and to what extent they are helpless victims. All this and a style that is as supple as it is lucid makes him one of the best satirists now writing...
...most duels, the serious blends insensibly with the comic. The countess makes bequests of gems she has pawned, mistakes total strangers for lifetime friends. But in her infrequent lucid moments, the countess teaches young Carmela that the full life requires the taste of a connoisseur and the instincts of a gambler. "Never economize with life," she warns. "It never gives anything back." Carmela suddenly acquires the confidence of her own sexual power and beauty. It shines through to a film director (clearly modeled on Vittorio De Sica) who screen-tests the young beauty at just about the time that...
...jolted to his eyeteeth to discover that he was suddenly a major target in the all-out Democratic attack on the Dixon-Yates contract. Rattled by the committee's questions, he suffered lapses of memory on vital points, and left a bad impression. He was at his most lucid when he said: "We may have made mistakes, the Lord knows, but there was nothing phony or dishonest or any conspiracy with anybody as far as any dealings that we had . . . Now today, with all that I know now, I certainly would have done differently...