Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roses to TIME [Jan. 31] for a vivid sketch on Cole Porter...
...heavy bombardment division in England. In the movie, some of the sharp edges have been knocked off the dialogue by the censors, and, in the hands of Clark Gable, General Dennis has become a less forceful figure. The picture gets its chief vitality from Walter Pidgeon's vivid playing of cynical old Major General Kane...
...life," he says, "it is that I have had to struggle with the world's dramatic future-the future always tending to shake the ground of the present on which I had my feet." Far into the night, Ortega still struggles with a "passion which is the most vivid I find in my heart. I would call it intellectual love...
...Madness, wrote a series of haunting stories about it. They had the hard authenticity of firsthand pictures of war and revolution, with none of the drab, repetitious prose that is now almost a trademark of war novels. His themes were as subtle as Turgenev's, with clear and vivid pictures of action, but the distinction of his work was its fine cadenced prose. O'Faoláin's novels, e.g., A Nest of Simple Folk, had much the same quality, but were diffused and blurred by an indistinctness that lay like a mist over setting and characters...
...novel, The Grand Design seldom clicks. Characters wander in & out of its pages, drifting on the political tide. A few, easily recognizable, will cause gossip, but not many are vivid enough to arouse much interest. Some of the leading ones...