Word: lucidly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Travels (really intended as a political satire) has been for two centuries a classic child's book. This man, born at the dawn of the Age of Reason, was to turn into a madman; the skeptical clerk who wrote lucid prose died raving. His was the skull beneath the powdered skin of the 18th century...
...cookies, mostly for the grave trade. Whether out of superstition or sentiment, their wares were heaped in tombs, and so sometimes survived the centuries. Many of the figures are thought to be free little interpretations of lost great sculptures. They narrowly reflect, as in a rear-view mirror, the lucid, passionate, sun-swept world of the ancient Mediterranean...
...effectively balanced by the warm and realistic sketching of his characters, largely through details of their conversion. Heliczer's strange form, in fact, seems almost necessary to counter the realistic detail of the young pedant, his acid girl, and their combined sensuality. Heliczer's narrative style is light and lucid, and his humor does not obstruct the seriousness of the piece as a whole...
...decorated with quotation marks. Aside from this, the author does little more than fill out the recorded incidents with stage direction and plausible detail, and fill in between them with little scenes of his own devising--none of which display any abnormal fertility of imaganation. His language is so lucid that it never obscures any part of the chronicle, but so restrained that he seems to be denying himself a last avenue of self expression in playing with this story, whose outcome is decided from the start by history...
...Bridge," by Evan S. Connell, is satire on mid-western, upper-middle class morality. It is not able for a placidity of viewpoint unlike much social satire. The other stories are marred more or less, as I have said, by an obvious effort to be murky or ultra-lucid. The "Art of Fiction" interview, tenth of a uniformly excellent series, is with James Thurber...