Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...selected by Navy Captain Edward Steichen from among thousands taken by Coast Guard, Marine and Navy photographers. Once the highest-paid advertising photographer in the U.S., shy, hard-working Steichen was commissioned in 1942 to head a special photographic unit, coached the men who shot the film for the vivid, action-packed Fighting Lady (TIME, Jan. 22). Like Fighting Lady, the Steichen-edited Power in the Pacific is a superb example of the technical achievements of modern photography. His chief contribution is the incredible enlargements, which lost nothing in the blowing-up process. Working with a picked staff of technicians...
When Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery made a flying trip to England after the Normandy landing, one of the first things he did was to read Faces in a Dusty Picture. This brusque, vivid novel about the Libyan campaign was written by a 35-year-old veteran named Gerald Kersh-in civilian life an author, bouncer, traveling salesman, debt collector and professional wrestler; in World War II a Hemingway-mustached Tommy in Britain's oldest (1650) regiment-of-the-line, the Coldstream Guards. Now Author Kersh has followed up his dusty Faces with a lusty tribute...
...kind of fault, because the play resorts to outside enlightenment rather than selfrevelation; it tells rather than shows. The result is more like a solved cryptogram than a thing of flesh & blood. But, if not a satisfying experience, The Deep Mrs. Sykes, with its verbal claws and vivid theater, is very often a stimulating...
Romance at 43. The closest Jefferson ever came to behaving with youthful indiscretion was at the age of 43, in his affair with Maria Cosway. At 22 this vivid, lovely, talented girl had married Richard Cosway, 39, a friend of the Prince of Wales and the most fashionable miniature painter in London. Maria was herself a painter of distinction, and apparently a virtuous woman, though gossips credited her with love affairs with the Prince of Wales, a singer, a painter, and the secretary of the Neapolitan ambassador...
...Russians (whom he liked) and the Soviet system (which he disliked) looked to a seasoned newsman who has seen a lot of the world but kept the basic viewpoint of his native Kansas. Readers will also find the book (which corrects some errors in the Digest version) no less vivid and readable than Author White's best-selling Journey for Margaret, They Were Expendable, and Queens Die Proudly...