Word: lucidly
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...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...
Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande (Angel, 3 LPs). Herbert von Karajan creates a lucid, lyrical recording. Frederica von Stade, as Mélisande, stands out for her exquisite French style...
...subject and substance, style and spirit. The film changes tone, even form, with its hero's every new mood and mutation. It expands and contracts with his mind until both almost crack. It keeps threatening to go bonkers, then makes good on its threat, and still remains as lucid as an aerialist on a high wire. It moves with the loping energy of a crafty psychopath, or of film makers gripped with the potential of blowing the moviegoer's mind out through his eyes and ears. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Altered States...
Their social philosophy was neither Communist nor capitalist-nor overly lucid. Among its elements: rigid pacifism opposition to the revolutionary class struggle, acceptance of private property but with industry owned by workers and generally, the less government the better. Day and Maurin called it Christian "anarchism...