Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With three police cars as escort, the "farmers" rolled into Eugene. Up Skinner's Butte charged a squad with pails of paint, daubing the University of Oregon's yellow cement ''O'' on the hillside with Oregon State's vivid orange. The procession tooted on to University of Oregon's campus. With the exception of a stubborn professor who continued to lecture to his class on the French Revolution, most Oregonian faculty and students had rushed pell-mell from their classes to repulse the invaders. At the law school an Oregonian turned...
From this early section the Journal jumps to 1832, when Delacroix accompanied a French diplomatic mission to Morocco. His notes on the most vivid adventure of his life are clipped, wholly objective, brilliantly businesslike, set down only to help him remember details of what he saw. Some of them are like a modern Imagist poem or a sketch for a cinema continuity: "The entrance to the castle: The Guardsmen in the court, the faÇade, the lane between two walls. At the end, under a sort of vault, men seated, making a brown silhouette against...
...necessarily out of perspective, since it would be possible to construct a table which would have exactly the same form. In a dining room such a table would not be useful; in a decorative painting its form may be. For the same reason Braque's colors, from the vivid yellow triangle of the tablecloth through the reddish brown of the wickerwork basket, the darker red of the shadow form at the right of the table, the grey-blues and green-blues of the structural background, are an improvement on the colors light would make in an ordinary room...
Although he did not start in the Harvard game last fall, McCray played more than half of it at left guard, calling signals of the offense and storing up vivid memories of Messrs. Kevorkian, Boston and Wilson on the defensive...
...known to the man in the street. Fresh examples of surrealism were not in evidence, the familiar ones being stock-in-trade with Manhattan dealers or on loan exhibitions in the eager Midwest. But among many pictures by young artists, critics recognized a few of well-founded ability and vivid promise...