Word: lucidly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kathleen M. Lucid...
DIED. Russell ("Lucky") Hayden, 68, né Pate Lucid, once known as the "rootin', tootin', ridin' Romeo of the screen." A sidekick to William Boyd in the Hopalong Cassidy series, he toured the country in 1950 asking kids if they approved of kissing in westerns (87% favored it if there was plenty of hard riding and fighting beforehand); of pneumonia; in Palm Springs...
...part of the liberal majority," he said in a recent interview at his home on Francis Avenue. And he obtains exactly the reaction he seeks, Liberal majority in the age of Reagan? Galbraith, intimidated neither by the President nor the latest news from Gallup, then proceeded to a lucid and convincing evocation of liberalism as the true doctrine of most Americans--"a pragmatic adjustment to circumstance"--and conservatism as the ideological dogma of unrealistic purists...
...Santoli, the Vietnam vet who compiled Everything We Had, has mastered some of these techniques. His eye for the lucid description is acute, and he has selected remarkably articulate passages. Too articulate, maybe. His list of contributors would indicate that almost every Vietnam veteran either lives in Vermont or writes plays or practices law--not exactly a representative sample from what was very much a working class war. Furthermore, the descriptions of what has happened to these men and women since the war are pitifully inadequate. For example: "Karl Phaler is deputy attorney general for the state of California...
...that is peculiarly old fashioned, a "fine style" that is more classical than conversational. The writing reads easily, remaining at all times calm, collected, and carefully conceived. Nothing is by chance. No risks are taken, and there are no hard edges or unseemly passions. Instead, there is just a lucid, self-possessed expression so carefully wrought that it seems to be the tasteful product of some fastidious, bespectacled old Swiss metal smith: smooth, accurate, and refined to 24-carat purity. The graceful delicacy, not often found in fiction today, gives the prose an elegiac air of some other century...