Word: lucidly
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...mountain, Hunt directed all his efforts at one supreme objective: to enable his summit climbers to mount the final 500 yards and 400 vertical feet with lucid minds and enough reserve strength to get down again...
...handful of graduates who take his advanced physics course, he is a lucid, if somewhat rapid lecture. He generally arrives late for class, marching in to scribble bursts of equations on the blackboard with incredible speed. When his right hand gets tired writing he switches to his left. He seldom looks at the class, but addresses the balckboard, writing as be talks. "When I lecture," he says, "I'm talking out loud to myself. I only hope that those who are listening will understand." Apparently this hope is justified for his lucidity often makes extremely complicated lecture material somewhat easier...
Brinton's writing is quite lucid; in fact he often sacrifices accuracy to gain clarity in making his optimistic generalizations. In such a short book perhaps this is inevitable, but only audacity could permit him to criticize Koestler and Shirer for generalizing their pessimism. With Brinton's hope tipping the scales the other way, the reader is tempted to seek the balanced view somewhere in between...
...this is my one criticism. Although the prose has been modernized, there is tremendous amount of refugee, verbose metaphor and heaped-up simile. I think in many instances, Miller's excellent paraphrasing and meticulous explanation evident elsewhere in the book could replace these passages. Williams was not an especially lucid writer, and if the series is to achieve its goal of appealing to "every literate American of whatever age and description," the way does not lie in copious quotations from the subject but impartial and scholarly interpretation by the author...
...back smugly as Lewis has done and say to buy more from the U.S. without an explanation of where the dollars are coming from is stupidity in its most lucid form...