Word: pellucid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...following. It is justifiable in such numbers as Standing on the Corner, Big D and Don 't Cry. The evening's choicest prize is the marvel of the human voice - unamplified. Opera star Tozzi sings with the richness of burnished bronze and Daniels complements him with her pellucid soprano. They and their colleagues practice vocal witchcraft. -T.E.K...
...person that he and she had been meticulously read out of the Declaration of Independence and reduced to three-fifths of a person (and then only for the voting privileges of white people) by the framers and adopters of the Constitution of the United States. We were told, with pellucid clarity, that the United States held no sense of urgency regarding the status of its black citizens, even while it showed a great moral outrage over the treatment and the conditions of life for millions of white people many thousands of miles away from its shores...
Marital dry rot in suburbia. A clinging mama and her growing-up boy. An alcoholic advertising salesman in search of himself. These are three of the whitest elephants in the attic of contemporary fiction-and Author Richard Yates, 50, has devoted a tight, pellucid novel to each one. An odd but not inconsiderable literary achievement, particularly in an age so helplessly smitten with the new. Yates' work brands him as a traditionalist in the strictest sense: he is a writer who feels dutybound to tell familiar stories in conventional ways...
...this is well and good, as are Wilson's command of visual space and dance consciousness, but in the realm of language he makes Gertrude Stein at her murkiest sound like a paragon of pellucid clarity...