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Word: vivid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mere pieces a few of them are vivid, even explosive. But with its dozen scenes and three dozen characters, Strange Fruit is jumpy, congested, disordered. As theater, it has far too little excitement; as drama, far too little thrust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays in Manhattan, Dec. 10, 1945 | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

...your treasurer securities with a marketable value of $1,500,000 ... to enable Harvard to build the undergraduate library that you tell me [it] needs. My own gratitude to Harvard is unbounded, and the sense of exhilaration and stimulus that the college gave my undergraduate years is as vivid today as it was a half-century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Them As Has Gits | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

...letter of presentation, Lamont described "the sense of exhilaration and stimulus that the College gave to my undergraduate years," and claimed it "as vivid today as it was a half century ago." Accepting the girt, President Conant brought out Lamont's previous generosity, and described the banker as "a wise and far-seeing donor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grant Received for New Library | 11/23/1945 | See Source »

...Winslow Homer's famed Civil War coverage for Harper's Weekly, nor the hell-for-leather zip of Hearst's Frederic Remington, but Glackens' Night after San Juan, which he drew while covering the Spanish-American War for the Press, was a topflight demonstration of vivid, accurate reporting. In the latter-day paintings, especially Shinn's The Hippodrome, Luks's The Spielers and Sloan's Wake of the Ferry, gallery-goers could see how a whiff of spot-news training had led to fine art happily free of the musty brown academicism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Reporters of the Brush | 10/29/1945 | See Source »

...paintings like Time Has Stratified Eternity are derived from ancient Mayan and Tarascan art forms. To 20th-Century eyes they look more like something seen through a microscope. Though they seem easy, Mérida gets his striking half-old, half-new effects after painstaking study; the raw, vivid colors are invariably surprising, and the figures, however grotesque, seem very much alive. Some of the paintings were the result of a visit to Texas. "The land there is as flat as a sea," says Mérida. "The sky eats men and houses alike. It is the most beautiful thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Boston Surprise | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

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