Word: lucidly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Opposition Leader Winston Churchill complimented the well-groomed, auburn-haired Chancellor on his "lucid, comprehensive statement . . . and evident lack of hatred or malice . . ." Tories would scrutinize the details and heckle the Labor government wherever they could in the coming budgetary debate, but privately they admitted that it was "a damn good budget-we'd have had to include most of his points if it had been our budget...
Italy's Pier Angeli, a slender, childlike girl of 18, plays a war bride with no makeup or fancy hairdo, and nothing of what Hollywood knows as sex appeal. Her lean, pretty face radiates something much rarer in Hollywood leading ladies: a lucid innocence through which emotions flow without let or artifice...
...Science and Common Sense" originated in lectures, first in a series given at Yale on how to teach "understanding science" and then in the class talks delivered here during the experimental years of Natural Sciences 4. The book has the advantages of Conant's lucid lecture style. He takes care to tell the reader what he will say, why he wants to say it, and how he will say it, before actually attacking a problem. A book about science necessarily has to tangle with some technical material which could obscure main points for readers particularly ill-equipped with scientific fundamentals...
...contribution that few Americans know about-whether from lack of interest or pure defensive caution. Following a modern poet up a mental slope carries real danger of getting hopelessly lost above the tree line of meaning. Lucid, logical John Ransom is not that kind of poet. Much of his poetry is as transparent as a weather report. As skillful in craft as he is slender in output, he can write movingly and hauntingly about the death of a small child, as in Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter...
...Charles Nolte is more successful as Billy because he does not exceed the narrow limits of the part. He is convincing in his simplicity. Dennis King is superb in the best conceived and written part, that of Captain Vere. His smallest gesture is sure and meaningful. King presents a lucid portrayal of a man torn between what should be and what must be. At the same time he preserves Vere's identity as a symbol, not of the ultimate good, but of the only good attainable on earth...