Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wilson" will stand for many years a vigorous documentary screen biography of a great American. It is not a motion picture with a message, but rather the vivid and moving story of an important President. Darryl Zanuck shows a quiet man of ideals struggling in a stormy era of materialism and comes forth with inspiring Americana...
Correspondent Wertenbaker's vivid, thoughtful account of his own observations in France is supplemented by lengthy quotations from A.P. Correspondent Don Whitehead and LIFE Photographer Robert Capa, who went in at the toughest point of the Normandy beach, and TIME Correspondent William Walton, who jumped with a paratroop unit. The result is a well-rounded account, and first-rate journalism...
Yesterday's lecture was entitled "Contextualistic Criticism," and, said Pepper, "Contextualiatic criticism takes emotionality into account. It looks at the work of art as a total situation absorbed in vivid, fused experience. And realism, therefore, has a very definite place, along with romanticism, as a vivid awareness of the quality of a situation...
Fully expecting a vivid account of exploits far and wide when we made the weekly round, we were met by icy stares and distracted comments instead. The midterms had taken hold...
...people at firsthand or by mail than any man, with the possible exception of Jim Farley, in the U.S. And he had become a master of the art of putting people at their ease and drawing them out, observing and remembering the significant detail, and reporting his findings in vivid, folksy, readable language. However little he himself may have suspected it, he was ready now for his great assignment...