Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Candle in the Wind" is not a good anti-Nazi play; it is not even good drama. Possibly because it is such an isolated instance in the greater drama of the fall of France, possibly because Mr. Anderson thinks that a vivid setting and screams of anguish from off-stage are all that are necessary to denote Nazi barbarity, but whatever the cause, "Candle in the Wind" is due for quick snuffing in New York...
...epigrammatic turns of phrase and scintillating repartee, have that ability which Sinclair Lewis has shown in his better novels--the ability to take people, exploit their every characteristic facet until they are a group of caricatures, but create caricatures which are exaggerated only enough to make them more vivid and real and not so much as to make them meretricious and ridiculous...
Sept. 15. There is a vivid passage on the attempted invasion. "I'm sure that something happened on September 15 . . . . I woke up to hear our next door neighbour backing his car stealthily out of the garage . . . . I leant out the window. The night was calm and moonlit; the moon sparkled on the flat sea. And there was a subdued hum everywhere, far and near, as if hundreds of cars were on the roads and lanes. I was so restless . . . . I got up and dressed and went out, up the road a little way into the fields. I could...
...each type of soil and climate in the eastern U.S. and which have increased the yield per acre from 11.5 bushels (1924-27) to 18.7 bushels (1937-40). Among the 2,500 varieties are Huang-tou, Manchu, Ito San and Hahto; Lexington, Tarheel Black, Illini, Wilson and Roosevelt-a vivid index to the Asiatic heritage and U.S. adoption of the plant...
...human and real as a nightmare is this first-hand account of the Fall of France by a soldier of the French Army. That enormous and intricate catastrophe might have cramped the hand of a Tolstoi. Hans Habe, previously a minor novelist, has turned it into the most vivid book World War II has yet produced. He tells nothing he did not see with his own eyes. But he saw the disintegration of a great people...