Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million-odd copies annually. For millions of common people The Itching Parrot has been editorial page, moral preceptor, soapbox speech, liberalistic handbook, underground leaflet, scandal sheet, pulp-thriller, comic strip, and dirty-joke book. It has also been-and still is-an engaging story in which is made wonderfully vivid, as Mrs. Porter says, "the sprawling, teeming, swarming people of Mexico, ragged, eternally cheated . . . insatiably and hopelessly hungry, but indestructible." Relieved of its pamphleteering and moralizing (and probably of a good deal of its vulgarity), it stands in English as a highly readable minor classic, written in a kind...
...have strengthened his desire. He met Mohandas Gandhi shortly after noon in the marbled and gilded Calcutta mansion of Gandhi's rich cotton-milling backer, Ghanshyamdas Birla. Throughout the conversations, Gandhi spun yarn on a charkha (hand spinning wheel). He talked with the Gissimo through an interpreter, with vivid Mme. Chiang in English. After 80 minutes the Chinese visitors dined, while the Mohandas, as usual, abstained from mid-day eating. The conference continued through Gandhi's evening meal of unleavened cakes, boiled vegetables, goat's milk and fruit. Gandhi gave the yarn he had spun...
...David Ewen in Music Comes to America (Thomas Y. Crowell; $3). Picturing a young nation's groping progress toward musical maturity, the story is by turns comic, valiant, humiliating, prideful. No scholarly treatise, not even an error-free* record, the book is none the less an engrossing, vivid history (as Mark Sullivan might tell it) of music's impact on the U.S. people...
...germ of his material, and a vocal text gave him the unity he naturally lacked and set the prevailing mood. His greatest work was probably the song-cycle, "Das Lied von der Erde," in which he achieves great poignancy with the greatest economy of means. Here is the most vivid and original Mahler, strolling through a misty Chinese garden, haunted by stabs and flashes of memory...
Parliament greeted the pact with solemn rejoicing. In the House of Lords Viscount Cecil of Chelwood called it an "extremely vivid contrast to the German Government's 'New Order.' " Only a few of the Lords had reservations about Ethiopia's new freedom. Though Anthony Eden had assured the House of Commons that Haile Selassie had promised to abolish slavery just as soon as possible, some of their Lordships wanted to know why the pact was signed before the emancipation was a fact...