Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...readers seeking a vivid and imaginative Soviet novelist who could describe the wild and involved battles of civil war without lapsing into melodrama or propaganda found their man last year in Mikhail Sholokhov (And Quiet Flows the Don). In Seeds of Tomorrow Sholokhov has written the story of a collective farm with robust humor, with good-natured mockery at the zeal and pompousness of Communists, with shrewd sympathy for the bewilderment of peasants...
Happily the manuscript is animated by some of the most vivid and skilfull acting imaginable. Julie Haydon, always a bit other worldly maintains a quietly beautiful emotional intensity which charms and excites. Le Tracy is admirably cast as the dynamic, self seeking Hanna is thoroughly at home and given a rousingly god performance in the Tracy manner. Jean Dixon who has lately been endearing herself to cinema fans scores a highly successful performance setting off her dry sophistication with an array of the very best lines. Mr. Hopkins, we think has another success on his hands...
...biography of Lindsay, aside from its value as a study in poetic frustration, throws a vivid light on the quality of the culture that nourished the poets of the Midwest school. Containing a great store of unassimilated information, lighted by occasional clairvoyant insights, the book seems less revealing of Lindsay than of Masters...
Such journalism on the part of the World-Telegram was a direct development of an article called "?And Sudden Death" by Joseph Chamberlin Furnas published in the August issue of Reader's Digest (TIME, Aug. 12). Using that article's brutally realistic method of shocking motorists into a vivid realization of the physical horror of a bad automobile wreck, the World-Telegram thus became the first important daily to put its newscolumns into the amazing safety crusade which "?And Sudden Death" started two months...
Born near Geneva, Marat was the son of a poor chemist. He studied medicine in Scotland, became expert in several languages, took up science. Fearless, bitter, he possessed a quick, vivid pen, turned it to account, after the overthrow of the French monarchy, with violent and inflammatory pamphlets. He gradually became powerful as a spokesman for the extreme Left, the "true type," according to Joseph Shearing, "of the low agitator of the Paris gutters." Terribly ugly, 5 ft. tall but with an enormous head, he suffered with eczema so badly that it was commonly believed he had leprosy. Charlotte...