Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...image of the then powerful British monarchy was vivid in the minds of the Founding Fathers; they were determined not to let the presidency become any such tyranny. The process by which the British Prime Minister and his Cabinet share responsibility with Parliament, and keep their jobs only by controlling a parliamentary majority, did not evolve until after the U.S. Constitution was written. In 1940, under this system, discredited Neville Chamberlain gave way to Winston Churchill without the necessity of an election. In the midst of the delicate Potsdam Conference last year, Labor Party leaders translated a victory...
...first went to the isthmus in the early '20s, when it was still possible to find the Tehuantepec River filled twice daily with naked bathers splashing unselfconsciously in the brown waters. Since then he has visited the country almost every year, sketching the handsome tehuanas with their vivid costumes, necklaces of $20 gold pieces, and spectacular headloads of fruit and flowers. He has collected tribal jadeite masks and jaguar figurines, has painted the giant ancient basalt heads of La Venta, has written down the Italian-like speech of the formidable matriarchs of the market places. Result: an alluring book...
...America's five million Jews the only opportunity of creating a "vivid, joy-giving Jewish culture" outside of Palestine, Marvin Lowenthal, author and sometime chairman of radio's "Invitation to Learning," told members of the Harvard-Radcliffe chapter of Hillel Foundation at Phillips Brooks House last-night...
...John Fischer, associate editor of Harper's magazine, and member of an UNRRA mission which traveled in the U.S.S.R. with fewer restrictions than any foreign group has had in years. Concluding a series of articles on his trip in the current Harper's, Editor Fischer gives a vivid account of the men he found there. Excerpts...
Youthful, maidenly Chantal lives in a French chateau whose Second Empire shrubberies and wide, tawny avenues are described by Bernanos with vivid feeling. With her live her timid, pedantic father (who has written volumes of history but cannot stir a step without the counsel of his psychiatrist) and her psychotic grandmother (who still clutches to her bosom the keys of storage cupboards that have long ceased to exist). Of such as them, Chantal says simply: "What can God find to say to those who, of their own free will, of their own weight incline toward sadness and turn instinctively toward...