Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ascertained after the Dunkirk evacuation, but declaring the determination of the Empire to fight to victory. Mr. Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty in World War I, wrote one of the brilliant histories of that struggle, The World Crisis. His last week's speech to Parliament is a vivid and eloquent chapter in the history to be written of World War II. It follows: From the moment when the defenses at Sedan on the Meuse were broken at the end of the second week in May only a rapid retreat to Amiens and the south could have saved...
...thence to Tibet and Turkestan, where he fought with a bloodthirsty Mohammedan chieftain against the Bolsheviks. Captured, he spent 116 days in solitary confinement in a Soviet prison, made his lucky exit via the Gobi desert to Shanghai. Whatever the facts of his curious adventures, Author "Ramal" is a vivid writer, nearly rivals the fantastic imaginings of Frederic Prokosch's The Asiatics...
...bitter satire. Never during the most intense moment in the hero's fortunes are we allowed to forget that the adventure of the mountain is but a facet, a link in the pattern of the tragedy of Everyman. Through the dramatic medium of poetry, Auden and Isherwood give a vivid universality to their characters...
...Muggeridge proceeds, his cold sickness about his own country gradually takes on power, the buzz of his crowding details mounts to a kind of hymn. Such fury may be a purging force. Certainly no piece of writing has yet made more vivid the last few ominous years for Britain: "Their world was passing away-London, that great city. None could revive it, none stay the process of disintegration. Feet treading, found no foothold; arms reaching, no guiding wall or comforting pillar found; mind thinking, nothing grasped. All was dissolving. Lost! lost! in the darkness of change...
...best, his work publicizes a staple poetical axiom-that Man is a self-contained spirit, inhabiting a material world. To give the old axiom zip, Williams dresses it up in the vivid picture-writing that admen use to give staple products up-to-the-minute attractiveness...