Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...except for the vivid moments of danger, Pasley was dull. No liquor was drunk, no poker allowed. The men did the ship's chores, studied Eskimo dialects, read. The library was ample, largely stories of tropic exploration to while away the dark, endlessly cold nights. Larsen mostly read his collection of all the printed books and papers of all the explorers who had tried to find the Northwest Passage...
...camera makes this will-to-freedom explicit in the faces of Fighting French soldiers marching up to battle stations or manning anti-aircraft guns on a destroyer; makes it visually implicit in the contrast between the faces of Nazified Frenchmen and those who would be free. There is a vivid shot of faces at an Underground meeting contrasted with those around the Nazi collaborationist Jacques Doriot; another of the "political vultures" around Laval, contrasted with the resolute faces of Fighting Frenchmen as they enlist under De Gaulle in London. There is one memorable glimpse of the cold, incredulous fury...
...Mark (by Maxwell Anderson; produced by The Playwrights' Company) is the first successful U.S. war play. Its artistic qualities are debatable, but it is vivid theater, beautifully staged by Director Lem Ward (Uncle Harry, Brooklyn, U.S.A.), and the story it tells, unvarnished in its simplicity, is unbeatable in its appeal. Of late years the flossiest of playwrights, Maxwell Anderson in The Eve of St. Mark has contrived no elaborate plot, essayed no vaulting rhetoric, embraced no queer philosophy. He does not have to. While other playwrights have floundered or gone too far afield to dramatize...
...Most vivid, terrible scene I ever witnessed. Such peaks! Dug through worst jungle yet. . . . If I don't die tonite, I may push on along shore a way tomorrow-I don't know...
...leading roles in the film are played by Hitler, Mussolini, the Japanese Army, and a series of statesmen ranging from an apologizing Tokyo of 1931 to an aroused Roosevelt of December 8, 1941. The scenes, all newsreel shot, tell a vivid story. In logical, almost childish simplicity, they recount the tale of Axis aggression, beginning with the invasion of Manchuria in 1931, ending with the American entrance into the war. At the same time, Allied weakness is traced through the stages of appeasement diplomacy down to the critical period of woeful unpreparedness...