Word: lucidly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...devised a paper solution to the problem of tailspin during World War I, learned to fly in three weeks, triumphantly tested his theory in person. Summoned by Churchill early in World War II ("He could decipher signals from the experts on the far horizon, and explain to me in lucid, homely terms what the issues were"), he had a hand in the balloon barrage, setting up the radar screen, and counter-measures for magnetic mines. In Churchill's second premiership he served (1951-53) as adviser on all atomic programs...
EVEN by the Soviet Union's own definition of aggression," Russia's "massive armed intervention" in Hungary is a matter for international concern, concluded a lucid and devastating U.N. committee report. The headlines told of brutality condemned, but the real fascination of the 150,000-word report is the story of how Russia coldly provoked the uprising it intended to crush, and ruled through a Premier held prisoner. See FOREIGN NEWS, Indictment for Murder...
Although the 150,000-word report was primarily concerned with Soviet military intervention in Hungary, under the terms of the committee's appointment last January, it was a lucid, balanced, but devastating exposition of every phase of the Hungarian Revolution arid its origins...
This short, lucid and important book is the best work to date on the subject, and should be the last word for all except the sentimentally prejudiced. At a time when many TV-conditioned minds are nudged towards the "forum" rather than real debate, this argumentative work is a relief. In a wide cast for the high-flying fish of fallacy, Dean Griswold & Co. are firmly caught on Hook's hook...
Matisse's The Conservatory came as another pleasant re-encounter. Few paintings, even by Matisse, match the lucid freshness of this canvas. And, as an interesting contrast, Three Bathers combines the Frenchman's characteristic gracious ease with a monumentality as structural as his bronze, Seated Nude...