Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vivid fact stood out when the personnel of Economist Göring's Council was announced last week: Five of twelve members were long-standing civil service experts who are relative newcomers to the Nazi Party. Inference of the shift of authority was that under the stress of the Allied blockade, and in the face of disappointment over Russia's power to help, German economy has had to bolster inflationary, promissory, "Socialist" schemes with more oldfashioned, penny-bank economics...
Romains' countryman, Andre Malraux, achieved in Man's Fate (1934), a story of the 1927 Chinese civil war, a more vivid and at times more exalted work of dramatic craftsmanship than Verdun. But Malraux was working within far narrower limits, in what physicists by analogy might call a closed field-more exotic, more melodramatic, less austere than Romains'. John Dos Passes' ambitious trilogy of pre-War to post-War U. S. A. appears nearer to Romains' in scope, but his great powers of narrative and evocation are spent on a host of minor characters...