Word: lucidly
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Blanshard spends a good deal of his book methodically proving that Communism is an evil thing. It is a sound and lucid indictment. It is also an exercise carried out to prove that Roman Catholicism is just as bad or worse...
...making composition the core of the required General Education courses, the Committee hopes to emphasize that good ideas demand lucid expression in all academic pursuits. The plan provides for a half-course, required for all freshmen, which will extend-over two terms. Since the students in the class '55 will have to take three G.E. courses for their degree, they will be expected to enter at least one in their freshman year in order to get a background of ideas for the composition course. Beyond this outline, many important details will decide the fate of the Committee's proposal...
...Christians and for Jews themselves, Rabb Philip Bernstein, president of the Centra Conference of American Rabbis, wrote an article for LIFE last fall. Now expanded and published in book form, with wood cuts by Quaker Fritz Eichenberg, Wha the Jews Believe (Farrar, Straus & Young; $1.25) is a lucid and readable primer of Judaism from a cheerfully humanistic point of view...
...kicks up such a dust that most bystanders can't make out what he's up to; but he is learning to keep his nag under control. Even in his irresponsible heyday candid friends sometimes said of him that his brilliance was self-defeating; his verse was lucid in flashes but never memorable. Said one critic: "His words lie dead on the page." But in his latest book he shows signs of attaining that memorable magic that only the best poets have...
...movie have assumed) a race. Also Guinness plays Fagin in the only way the old crook can be played--with exaggeration, as an amusing old man of guile and evil. Guinness never leaves this interpretation. His acting is not a triumph of subtle shading, but it is wonderfully lucid...