Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leaves the country station where he has been doing odd jobs, goes back to Moscow to take up life again. More than half the picture deals with his efforts to understand the new times. Fragment of an Empire is a description of a tremendous inspiration created out of horror, vivid and affecting because its theatre is personal. The hope and the horror, since they are not separated by the consciousness of what has happened in between, make...
...lecture entitled "How the British Q Boats Fought the German Submarines" and illustrated by stereopticon slides, Campbell will give a vivid description of the most ingenious of the methods employed by the British Admiralty to combat the submarine menace. The Q boats, merchant vessels armed with concealed guns and making every effort to be torpedoed, decoyed twelve German submarines to destruction. As commander of the first of these novel units in the British Navy and later of several others. Admiral Campbell accounted for four of the enemy's deadly underwater crafts, which in April 1917 were so depleting British tonnage...
With the publication of each new scholarly inquiry into the origins of the World War, those whose memories go back to the fatal days of 1914 have a vivid example of the way in which disinterested study and perspective change history from the partisan scream of newspaper headlines to the weighted decisions of historians. It is evident that amid the confusion of reports and propaganda surrounding each day's news only with extreme difficulty can the layman arrive at anything like an unprejudiced opinion concerning the events which are taking place round about him. Nevertheless it is that very opinion...
...personalities and the various manifestations of complexes as set forth by professor Pratt, the Vagabond is frankly puzzled -oh, not by professor Pratt, but by a certain Mr. Donald McKee. Mr. McKee, is probably well known and thoroughly disliked by everyone under the age thirty as the cartoonist whose vivid portrayals of the younger generation, in various stages of mental degeneration and alcoholic stupor, appear in the popular magazines...
Performance. Obviously a vast sum was spent on the Metropolitan's Sadko. The opera demands elaborate, fantastic pictures and, in most instances, Russian Designer Serge Sovdeikine realized them. Particularly striking was the banqueting scene where bearded, bright-coated merchants sat bibbing under a queerly-angled, vivid roof; the scene on the quay where gabbling townspeople watched the crack-brained Sadko fishing for his fortune; the bottom of the sea with its fish-folk orgy. Of the performers, Tenor Edward Johnson as Sadko sang sternly to the merchants, but beguilingly to the sea princess. Many in the audience reflected that...