Word: lucidly
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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...
...traveling lecturer on Eastern philosophy and yoga in America, I was deeply impressed with your splendid March 18 article on Indian art. Heartiest congratulations. You have made a lucid presentation of the lofty spirit of Eastern civilization. Your exposition of Hindu philosophy shows not only understanding but deep insight...
...deed was done in a lucid, ten-page White Paper on Defense, written by 49-year-old Minister of Defense Duncan Sandys, who called it "the biggest change in military policy ever made in normal times." Under the plan, the body strength of Britain's armed forces will be cut in half by 1962. Its battleships will be scrapped, its fighter planes junked, its overseas garrisons drastically reduced. New reliance of the British forces: guided missiles carrying nuclear warheads...
...small double-chorus opened the all-sacred program with a performance of Palestrina's Stabat Master. This work, one of the many settings of a medieval Latin poem attributed to Jacopone da Todi, is an excellent example of Palestrina's lucid polyphony. If the chorus's presentation was marred by an occasional uneasy entrance and by prominence of individual voices, it never fell into the pitfall of monotony which too often characterizes renditions of this type of music. Instead, the long vocal lines were moulded into a dynamically sound performance...
...career woman in a primarily-male field, Mrs. Gaposchkin dresses plainly and wears no make-up. Her professionalism is most evident in her ultra-efficiency, her lucid speech, and her chain-smoking. Even while she talks, she keeps a cigarette in the center of her mouth between her teeth, lighting each successive cigarette from the preceding...