Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battle of War Bonnet Gorge, for which Cody was given the Congressional Medal of Honor, is the most notable sequence: Filmed on the scene of the original battle, it is made vivid and real by the brilliance of technicolor which gives breath-taking color to the outdoor scenes. Charging from either end of a gorge, the soldiers and Indians meet in the shallow water of the stream bed. The battle which ensues is terrific in its ferocity. So much water is splashed that the lens of the camera gets wet--it really does--you can see the drops running down...
...with details piled on in careless abundance, and with sudden spirited scenes of violence lighting up in dividual characters with a brief intense flash. Often the situations are operatic, with the posturings and awkwardnesses of opera. But at moments they give way to a clarity of scene and character vivid as one of the Indian villages Captain Jack's paleface braves come upon suddenly in the woods. The total effect is epic and dis orderly. But so was the frontier...
...Lewis Gannett said its pages are "the most graphic, factual, frightened and frightening picture of frontline battle I have yet seen in print." Joseph Henry Jackson of the San Francisco Chronicle found it "one of the most truthful accounts of action in this war-and one of the most vivid pieces of writing on record." "About as near as you can get, in an armchair, to being in the midst of battle," said The Nation. And Foster Hailey wrote in the New York Times that Tarawa is "a superlative job of reporting, obviously written at white heat while the sounds...
Chester Bowles, the Senate Banking and Currency Committee found out last week, did not spend 14 years as a high-powered Manhattan advertising man (Benton and Bowles) for nothing. Neat, decorous and urbane (in vivid contrast to his pudgy, rumpled, truculent predecessor, Leon Henderson), the OPAdministrator appeared before the Committeee to begin the fight for renewal of the Emergency Price Control and Stabilization Act under which the OPA operates. (The Act will expire June 30.) His "presentation" was Benton and Bowles at its most persuasive...
...informative as an encyclopedia. As a report of military intelligence, with its microscopic account of the war against Conselheiro, it makes U.S. studies of battles in the Civil War seem almost superficial. Through its long expositions of climate, plant life, race, the social character of the backlands, extraordinarily vivid scenes flash at the reader. Rebellion in the Backlands did what Euclides da Cunha wanted it to do. It saved the story of Conselheiro from being buried with his corpse, chastened Brazilian militarists, and helped unify Brazil. But it queered its author with the army, and on Aug. 15, 1909, aged...