Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nonrevolutionary readers, Lenin's letters are likely to be disappointingly unexplosive. Such readers may not even agree at first with Editors Hill & Mudie that from them "there emerges above all the vivid figure of Lenin himself." Lenin's letters are like business letters. But it was a big business he was about, and as his scheme slowly progresses from small successes to failure to near-success to triumph, even businessmen readers will scarce forbear to cheer. Irritation, anger when schemes go wrong or partners fail him, Lenin frequently shows; personal feeling, almost never. The letters to his wife...
SUNS Go DOWN-Flannery Lewis- Macmillan ($2). Excellent characterization, recalling the tender humor of Glenway Wescott's The Grandmothers, of the author's doughty, imaginative, 90-year-old grandmother, "the first decent white woman in the Comstock District." A vivid piece of Americana covering the era of Virginia City, Nev., from its fabulous boom days of 40,000 families to its present ghostly desertion...
...Tyndale, and Coverdale had blazed the English trail. And the forty seven scholars, the most learned that England could boast, carried in them the spirit of the age. It was the age "of Shakespeare's London and the ships of the Elizabethan voyagers-- of men whose language was as vivid and as virile as their lives." Small wonder that their efforts came to fruit in "the noblest monument of English prose...
...evident from the partial inventory above of its dramatic materials, it is not a hastily concocted case history of the General Motors strike in Flint (TIME, Jan. 11 et seq.). It is a proletarian fairy tale in unrelieved black & white. Viewed from within its own wonderland it is vivid enough to enlist sympathy for the good fairies in their struggles against the hobgoblins. The play's nightmarish atmosphere is enhanced by Howard Bay's vast, sombre setting which represents the interior of an abandoned factory, dominated by the gutted carcass of a huge dynamo...
...liberal analysis to boil down the impudent, abstracted charm of the picture into this or any other trade category. Wings of the Morning glows with the kind of imagery which used to absorb the late Donn Byrne, upon some of whose stories it is based. Its tinted surfaces are vivid with gypsies, Irish hunters, girls in boys' clothing and effective landscape shots. Its structure, like that of the Byrne stories, is subject to interpolation every time a colorful episode, not included in the original scheme, seems possible...