Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME's drolly flabbergasting captions, oddly arranged sentences, strange, trenchant, startling and vivid epithets-these by association (rather than per se) are endearing to its readers. . . . Such vigorous goings-on, however, premise an affectionate give-&-take which no advertiser even begins to rate...
Professor Cabot's course will give students a vivid and realistic picture of some of the governmental problems which business men must face and solve if they are to retain control of their business. In addition, Professor Cabot writes of his course: "Great changes will certainly come and may come swiftly. We have always been a disorderly people but the chaos which now prevails is a new phenomenon for the nation, and we must ask and answer, 'What caused it?' When considered at first glance, it might appear that the causes are the World War and the world-wide depression...
...thousand more Chinese made bedlam as General Tsai was driven through narrow Chinatown streets plastered with his portrait in vivid yellows and greens. "There never was anything like it!" said Detective Daniel Devoti of the Chinatown squad. "They are giving General Tsai a bigger welcome than they gave 37 years ago to the great Viceroy Li Hung- chang...
Born in the Transvaal of a Dutch mother, an English father, Henry Landau's first vivid recollections are of the Boer War. Two languages were his by inheritance. German he acquired later as a boy at school in Dresden. In his travels about Europe he improved his French, picked up Flemish. He graduated from Cambridge where "scholastically I was a brilliant success," went in for engineering (Colorado School of Mines, London School of Mines). When the War came he joined an ambulance unit, was transferred to the artillery where he rose to a captaincy. When in 1916 British espionage...
...Author Mann has woven the threads of myth, history and fiction into a story of consummate artistry, but from time to time he deliberately breaks the thread, ties it into the deeper pattern of the tale's symbolic background. Joseph, Jacob, Isaac, Esau, Laban, Rachel, Leah take on vivid lifelikeness as characters in their own right, but at the same time their outlines are misty with suggestions of their ancestors and their posterity. Says Author Mann: 'I do not conceal from myself the difficulty of writing about people who do not precisely know who they...