Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Less well done, Lisa's story complicates the book, blurs its outlines, is tiresome reading compared with the vivid scenes of life & death on the Southampton beachhead. Readers are likely to forget the long talks about politics. They will remember Anne's shock at seeing Marco at her best friend's wedding, the families crowding together in poverty after the suicides and heart failures of the crash. When rich Uncle Bruce Craven went broke, and was charged with having stolen $6,500,000, Marco was the lawyer on the other side. When Uncle Bruce asked his friends...
...play had something, too. Anything but a good play, fissured with faults, encrusted with crudities, it was yet vivid theater. It had also, along with the sprawl, some of the scope of a novel. Its characters did too much and sometimes talked too fancily, but-escaping the prison of a rigid stage technique-they had an absurd, audacious vitality. Best of all, perhaps, Playwright Yordan cared about his people, and in his fumbling way saw life a little as greater writers have seen it-not just as a problem or struggle, but as a changing and clouded dream...
...Vivid Gadget. The portable recorders carried straight into battle by some radiomen (best was the Navy's film recorder) gave war reporting a vividness it has never had before. NBC's Wright Bryan had a recorder aboard a transport plane going in with paratroops. He described the scene and tension admirably, but none of his words matched the fateful clicks as the paratroopers hooked up their automatic release belts. A BBC recording caught a bargeload of British Tommies singing For Me and My Gal on their way to Normandy...
...Price of Despair. From Algiers came a vivid indictment of Washington's policy of limited, insufficient recognition (all hands blamed President Roosevelt more than Prime Minister Churchill). Cabled New York Timesman Harold Callender, who used to defend the State Department's attitude toward De Gaulle...
This is William Walton, our paratroop expert and correspondent on special assignment to cover the war in the air. He crossed to England on the Coast Guard Cutter Spencer, and you may remember his vivid story of how the Spencer Davey Jonesed a U-boat in an eight-hour battle...