Word: lucidly
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...greatest triumph of "The Bicycle Thief" is in its lucid picture of the relationship of father and son. Much, perhaps the greatest part of this success, is due to the superb acting of Lamberto Maggiorani as the tight -lipped, over whelmed father, and Enzo Staiola as his spirited boy. Both these non-professional actors are amazingly sure and penetrating in their characterizations...
...island off an unnamed European country, the Governor is plotting first to seize complete power in his own country, then to reach out for the world. His natural advantages in addition to his ruthless cult of power are exceptional: charming good looks, a handsome figure, an ingratiating personality, a lucid and imaginative intelligence. But the Governor sees far beyond mere political dominion. He intends to be venerated as a god; he is training prisoners to be his disciples...
...Britain's most famous university M.P.s, Independent A. P. Herbert of Oxford, will not seek another political office in the forthcoming election; he has decided to devote all his propaganda energies to a crusade against low-flying airplanes. * However, if a lunatic casts his vote during a lucid interval, it is valid...
...readers, Orwell is known chiefly through last year's Nineteen Eighty-Four. He was mortally ill with tuberculosis when he wrote it. But Orwell's mind had never been more lucid. Nineteen Eighty-Four is the grimmest, the most logically imagined and credible preview of the totalitarian state in print.* It is not so much a satire as a portent. The 18th Century's great Dean Swift, whom Orwell admired and to whom he has been compared, is at best a distant literary cousin. Gulliver's Travels discursively, and sometimes vindictively, pilloried comparatively commonplace human failings...
...word grouse in the current American Newspaper Guild Reporter that was well sprinkled with 25-word sentences, Faherty ended on a 14 W note: "It isn't writing. It's cutting paper dolls." To prove his point, Faherty cited "fine, lucid" leads in the New York News (48, 32, 34 words), the Herald Tribune (60, 65), the Christian Science Monitor...