Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newer, presumably better world. Pilgrim Fathers & Mothers are the heroes & heroines of Authoress Carlisle's book. In We Begin she paints, with meticulous nicety of detail, an historical mural of extraordinary scope. Following muralist technique, she manages to make her characters striking but not too personal, her details vivid but not too bright. Only a theatrical ending tarnishes her brilliant scenario...
...great game called "Understanding America." Drawings by Peter Arno, Otto Soglow, other New Yorker artists; photographs by Margaret Bourke-White, Anton Bruehl; paintings by George Bellows, Charles Sheeler, Georgia O'Keefe, Morris Kantor, Charles Burchfield et al. are intermingled with sculptural figures, early American paintings to make a vivid tout ensemble...
...Under a vivid canopy of red and white streamers, which will float over one thousand multi-colored balloons, the members of the Class of 1935 will celebrate the Freshman Jubilee this evening in the new setting provided by the Freshman Union. The strains of Jack Marshard's twenty-piece orchestra will supplement the carnival background of what promises to be a more colorful jubilee than any held in the small area provided by Smith Halls...
...Democratic leader of the Senate, defying Louisiana's loud Democratic Senator Huey Pierce Long) and the caption ("The real issue in Washington . . . Patriotism vs Communism") were not very exciting. But the U. S. flag held by Senator Robinson and a Communist banner brandished by Senator Long, were in vivid, eye-smashing red. The U. S. flag's blue field was not shown; there was no other color in the picture. But the force of the cartoon was immeasurably increased by its red blotches. A patriotic eye could even imagine that the U. S. stripes were less Red than...
...played, and with a few hints, as polite and helpful as possible, on the players, rules and tricks of the game. To keep this attitude from resulting, as it might have done, in tedious pedantry, was one of the major editorial problems. It called for writing of a most vivid and original kind. It also necessitated the complete elimination of bias and prejudice. This new historian must have perspective and complete objectivity. His attitude must be, as it has since been defined, that of the Man in the Moon at the end of the current century...