Word: lucidly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Mary Gunning (Maguire) Colum, 70, "incorrigibly Irish" critic (From These Roots) and autobiographer (Life and the Dream), guest professor of comparative literature at Columbia University, whose seasoned literary criticism was always lucid and shrewd, often eloquent and powerful; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A student member of the Dublin circle of writers and poets who led the "Irish literary renaissance" before World War I, she married (in 1912) Padraic Colum, poet-dramatist founder of the Irish Review, settled with him in the U.S. Her last work-in-progress (with her husband): Our Friend James Joyce...
...loss of faith. He himself has recently retreated to the religion of art, embracing the Nietzschean view that "we have art in order not to die of the truth." At a fellow-traveling distance, Jean-Paul Sartre consoles himself with the shifting certitudes of Communism. Albert Camus has too lucid a mind and too scrupulous a moral conscience to opt for such relatively easy solutions. With each successive book, he seems to be sweeping closer to a Niagara of faith, albeit he paddles strenuously upstream towards his professed atheism. Witty, skeptical, man-intoxicated, Camus may never take the final leap...
...average rate of 24 verses a day, and today it is an approved version. World War II provided some interruptions-especially when Knox became confessor to a group of evacuated teen-age girls billeted in the same house. But his sermons to them and other schoolgirls made two lucid little books for laymen on Catholic fundamentals: The Mass in Slow Motion and The Creed in Slow Motion...
...France's youngest Finance Minister of the century. A man who comes from the cognac country, wears the Rosette of the Resistance, plays clean classic piano and dirty rock 'n' roll, Politician Gaillard is a man with a mission. For his colleagues he drew a lucid and gloomy picture...
...lucid, 50-minute charge to the jury, Judge Taylor tuned his piping voice to the heart of the issue: "Whether school integration is right or wrong is a question to be debated in the public forum of speech and press. The right or wrong of integration is not pertinent to the question before the jury, namely, whether the defendants violated the injunction aforesaid under such circumstances as to make them guilty of criminal contempt...