Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world as my parish...." By 1791 he had traveled some 250,000 miles, most of it on horseback over miserable roads, often braving angry mobs, to "preach the Gospel to the poor." Wesley's Journal, sixth of the writings selected by Professor McNeill, is a detailed and vivid record of the rough, violent, unequal world which was 18th Century England to all but the privileged few. It is also, says Author McNeill, "the book of a saint, whose devotion was not the less complete for lack of protracted contemplation. He was often in prayer; but the impression conveyed...
Last week excited Soviet archeologists were studying a burial mound recently found in the Altai mountains near the boundary of Outer Mongolia. The mound showed a vivid glimpse of how the barbaric nomads buried an honored young woman some 2,000 years ago. Through the short summers of the Altai, the frozen tomb had preserved all its contents as if in a giant deepfreeze...
...measurements, the stipulation that their cathedral be designed "so as to be worthy of a heart expanded to much greatness." That spirit suffused the whole city; the images of its faith stood everywhere. They were at least as close and familiar as the Hollywood dreamworld is today, and more vivid -especially at Christmas...
Crossfire (American). A lucky combination (talent, front-office permission, a low budget, a rushed shooting schedule, and a subject worth feeling strongly about -anti-Semitism) produced the year's most vivid melodrama (TIME...
Lamplit Target. The excitement, color, and fighting of Ben-Hur, though set in the Rome of the early Christian martyrs, came out of Wallace's own vivid experience, says Biographer McKee. He had been stimulated to think out his own religious convictions to answer the century's famed atheist, Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll. It took him seven years to write the novel. When three-quarters of the book was finished, he was recalled to New Mexico. Wallace worked on Ben-Hur in the governor's mansion at Santa Fe, an old building with grime-covered walls, rain...