Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...somewhat falsifies the second half. Far from toughening Playwright Hart's flyers, actual war makes them almost more tender. The later scenes taper off anyhow, like postscripts in a cruder scrawl. Playwright Hart's real play is the training of a cadet. That story is not only vivid and self-contained, but it is one that Moss Hart watched with his own eyes...
...slow, bitterly difficult fighting. U.S. Colonel Raymond C. Hamilton, just back in Washington from the Italian front, gave a vivid, firsthand account...
Pageantry, Paganism, Piety. The Apostle is packed with realistic resuscitations of First-Century life in the Roman Empire, elaborately drawn portraits of famed pagans (Emperor Caligula, Empress Poppaea, Philosopher-Statesman Seneca), vivid descriptions of the burning of Rome, Nero's persecutions, the mystery cults and the worship of Diana...
...Instrument. Donald Douglas thinks this way partly because he is a hardheaded manufacturer, with no room in his head for nonsense-or for dreams-but mainly because he is an engineer, with a passion for airplanes as things embodying engineering designs, and a passion for precision. Dreams may be vivid but blueprints are precise...
Youth In Crisis (March of Time) and Children of Mars (RKO-Radio) are two unusually vivid, powerful, short films about wartime juvenile delinquency.* Both films cover the same ground, but they are so different in approach and emphasis that they supplement each other...