Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ohio's Frances P. Bolton reasoned: "I cannot believe that the people of this country will want to do anything less for themselves and the future than to play a vital, living, vivid part in this, our first venture into international responsibility...
...most of the action takes place in the South Pacific and San Francisco). Dumas fans, and readers (if such there be) who have never read a line of Dumas, may well be charmed by the fact that The Journal of Madame Giovanni, while no Three Musketeers, is more exciting, vivid, tantalizingly rambling than any romance of like kidney turned out today...
...vivid description of a child dead at birth gives way to his account of his religious training: "Especially present to me is the very philosophic dogma that God is everywhere, by His essence, by His presence and by His power; of which, however, the first clause has always remained obscure to me. . . . But the other two clauses are luminous, and have taught me from the first to conceive omnificent power and eternal truth. ... I have reasserted them, in my mature philosophy. . . . They belong to human sanity, to human orthodoxy; I wish to cling to that, no matter from what source...
...teeth of war. But it produces only a plausible symbol, not a flesh-&-blood human being. Sam is made too articulate about what ails him and not convincing enough about why he alters. Nor does the play, which distrusts the shock tactics of melodrama, possess the skill to be vivid for long without...
...Curie's Journey among Warriors: "The best part of the book, to my mind, is devoted to the Russian scene. These pages seem to get closest to the heart of things, to give us that extraordinarily intimate and vivid picture of what sublime sacrifice the men and women were making to save the country dear to their hearts...