Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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though it does not, of course, settle any immediate problem, it certainly does point out with macabre strength that more than humble defeatism is necessary it we are to avoid a repetition of a nightmare still vivid to the entire world. Although these may be obvious points they certainly cannot be over-emphasized and the dramatic interest of the film make it one which should be seen by everybody at periodic intervals...
...rosy romantics who read Austin Dobson, collect bisque statuets of Pierrot & Columbine and attend lectures on the 17th Century harlequinade like to remember that there exists in the U. S. today a vivid healthy parallel of the true commedia dell' arte. Like the commedia, the Burlesque Show is extemporaneous, its libretto an assembly of long-remembered "bits" that have never been formally written down. Like the commedia, Burlesque has developed a cast of traditional characters with formalized costumes. The tramp, the Jew, the policeman, the soubrette and the straight man are as persistently unvarying as Harlequin, Pierrot, Columbine...
Opponents of the required course delight in dragging into the argument a romantic description of what a university should be. A community of scholars dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge and to the advancement of learning--such is the picture we have painted. Against this is raised a vivid scene to portray the iniquities of the required course--students frittering away their time in dead and uninteresting subjects at the expense of their true intellectual potentialities...
...SYMPHONY -- The New York Philharmonic-Symphony orchestra this year has a vivid program of 30 two-hour broadcasts for Sunday afternoon symphony listeners. Presenting distinguished guest artists, the series is under the direction of Otto Klemperor, with Lawrence Gilman, noted critic, as program commontator. (CBS, Sundays...
...original novel, in which are blended, with peculiarly happy results, fantasy, allegory, whimsicality, and a pathos that is neither mawkish nor morbid. To tell the story of "Lost Horizon" would be wellnigh impossible, and extremely injudicious, for Hilton's telling leaves nothing to be desired. His characters are vivid, notably Conway, a youngish Englishman, whose exceptional talents the war effectively prevented from materializing...