Word: lucidly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very interested in your article "Once More, Trouble in Berlin" [Feb. 21]. It was lucid and provocative; but you say, "Yakubovsky has a Btfsplkian habit of turning up just before something big happens." Who or what is "Btfsplkian?" Is it from Catch-22 or a recent novel? Please set me straight. I may not sleep for fear of Yakubovsky turning up in D.C. in some Jekyll guise. God forbid...
...wish to criticize the author of "Directive on the Typing of Study Cards," for it is written in lucid prose and is undoubtedly an invaluable aid to the secretaries. However, it seems, at least to one inexperienced in administrative procedure, that the author's talents might better be exercised elsewhere...
ALEXANDER POPE, by Peter Quennell. A lucid biography of the great 18th-century poet, a proud and petulant man who used words as sticks and stones in his savage satires...
Nabokov's prose is elegant and lucid, easy to read, and amusing. He is one of the few writers who can make a reader laugh out loud, even with "serious criticism" like his delightful essay "On a Book Entitled Lolita." In that essay he says, "After all we are not children, .not illiterate juvenile delinquents..."And that is one of the best reasons for liking Nabokov--he treats the reader as a sensitive, literate person. He sets out to tell amusing and moving stories, and this he does. He says, "For me a work of fiction exists only insofar...
...traced the signs of hope or redemption. Between this sky and the faces turned toward it there is nothing on which to hang a mythology, a literature, an ethic, or a religion-only stones, flesh, stars, and those truths the hand can touch." However, Camus' quest for a lucid, objective ethic for man never allowed him more than a temporary relief in the stones, flesh and stars of touchable truths...