Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...played it twelve years ago in London, Robeson waited so long to play it over here. For in spite of muffing certain speeches-his lines sometimes throbbed awkwardly-and overacting certain scenes-his Grand Manner sometimes burst a seam-Robeson gave a performance that even at its worst was vivid and that at its best was shattering...
Sponsors: the 100-odd members of the San Francisco Press Club, helped by contributions from all over the nation. They started the project immediately after Army Colonel George S. Clarke gave the pressmen a vivid, moving description of the suffering of U.S. soldiers on the battlefields of Bataan...
...immensity, and in the heat of the moment (the air waves carrying the symphony to listeners passed through an average of 90°) Manhattan's critics were inclined to do little tearing down. But most of them were cautious. They agreed that the Seventh Symphony was impressive, sincere, vivid, vast. They also admitted that it was sometimes dull, sometimes theatrical, often derivative. Said the New York Times's Olin Downes: "This symphony is far from a work of sustained greatness, either of ideas, workmanship or taste," but "that it has its great moments is unarguable." Said Henry Simon...
...knew more about Manhattan and Newport society than any other man, including his famed predecessor, Ward McAllister, who invented "The 400." Paul coined the phrase "Café Society" and made a fat living insulting it. But he differed from other society reporters in being able to keep alive the vivid fiction that a world of "real" socialites existed. The fiction will die with...
...rather more prudish than Howells." This fact is subtly related to his limitations as a writer. He had a simple genius for making all males, of any age, come to life, even in a few lines. Middle-aged women, like Tom's Aunt Polly, are fully and tenderly vivid. But Mark Twain's young women, says Critic DeVoto, are just so much "bisque" and "pasteboard." Mark Twain never could write about love...