Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vivid biography of the late great Hideyo Noguchi who died while seeking the cause of yellow fever in Africa, appeared last week.* It uncloaks the tumultuous little scientist, of whom only intimate friends knew more than that he was born in 1876 to a Japanese peasant, that he eventually reached the U. S. where he produced important discoveries on snake venoms, syphilis, infantile paralysis, rabies, smallpox, yellow fever, that nations gave him kudos...
Cavalleria Rusticana, by Italian artists. La Scala chorus and the Milan Symphony under Lorenzo Molajoli (Columbia, $15) ?An authentic, full-blooded performance of Mascagni's only hit. Soprano Giannina Arangi Lombardi gives a vivid performance of the betrayed peasant girl...
...down. S. M. Craige, a former Marine, operator of the Managua radio transmitter, ran out to his station nearly four miles in the country. The station was still standing. He burst in, panting, and sent the first word of Managua's ruin to the outer world. Soon came vivid reports to the U. S. Press. Besides the regular correspondents, several able newshawks happened to be in Managua last week. Dapper Charles J. V. Murphy, a former New York World man, was there preparing a book on the Marines in Nicaragua. All day long he worked with the rescue squads...
Certain sections of Mr. Lynch's book have recently been treated at greater length by Claude Bowers. "Hamilton and Jefferson" and "Party Battles of the Jackson Period" are both written in a colorful and dramatic fashion, enlightened by vivid portraitures of historical figures. Mr. Lynch, however, has no eye for pure dramatic effect. What he aimed at was primarily a lucid, accurate narration of events. Yet his subject is often so dramatic in itself that any efforts to make it more so might well have been abortive. Thorough documentation and adherence to fact need not deter one from finding...
...defects of the book can be found only in the exaggeration of its virtues. Just as the vivid imagery of the style is apt to become too consciously poetic, so might the dramatic reality be said to tend toward the literary only, so can the painstaking dialogue become a trifle clotting. However, without caviling over critical straws, there is much in this book for those who believe that realism does not necessarily mean a lack of imagination, that humanity is only as barren as those who observe it. For these, and for any who like a good story, there...