Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pennsylvania Avenue side of the White House, the big round pansy bed was in vivid bloom, and the oriental magnolia trees were suddenly heavy with purple-edged white blossoms. The wide, deep lawn was a bright green. To the passer-by the Executive Mansion seemed whiter, dressier, gayer than at any time since five springs...
...through the narrator's contrasted affairs with two women, the U.S. middle class and the U.S. proletariat. The bourgeois wife, Imogen, is a convincing redigestion, in contemporary terms, of the kind of paralytic romanticism which Flaubert raged at (and suffered from). The proletarian taxi-dancer, Anna, is more vivid and engaging, and the glimpses into her world-a world of incidents like the Polish boarder's "doing his business and wrapping it up in paper" for Anna to pick up-are the most detached that any writer, left or right, has yet furnished on behalf...
...With all due respect to our American cousins, whose language is vivid and amusing and has a superficial resemblance to our own, it is they who are partly responsible for this deplorable state...
...Hungarian-born inventor of color television, unveiled equipment developed since V-J day. For an hour, an ingenious new receiving set was tuned in on a filmed fashion show and football game, a Disney color short. The broadcast was over ultra-high frequency, radar wave lengths. The reception, as vivid as a Van Gogh painting, made black-&-white television look antiquated. Boasted CBS: "the insurmountable obstacles" have been hurdled; in a year, if the demand is great enough, color television can be in the U.S. home...
...quite as simple as King makes it out. He has a vivid and rangy talent for sensing, not what his people want, but what they themselves really know they should have. He is, in a sense, a sort of national conscience that bends, persists and never breaks: "I try to make up my mind what is the right thing to do, and feel confident that the people will think it is right...