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...physical beauty of the area is made vivid for the audience through the eyes of Robert Kincaid (Eastwood), a nomadic National Geographic photographer who arrives in Winterset, Iowa with the intention of "making pictures" of the covered bridges in the area. On the way to the last bridge, he finds himself lost, and stops for directions at the Johnson family farm...
...university does have a record of the scholarship, its donor unknown, yet Koernke elected to spend his freshman year at the less prestigious, less expensive Eastern Michigan University. While there he joined the ROTC program, cutting a vivid and peculiar figure. "I don't often remember students who were in only briefly," says Lieut. Colonel Michael Chirio (ret.), who ran the program. "But I remember him. He was not a shrinking violet." Koernke, says Chirio, loved to lecture others "about a lot of things," especially weaponry. "He evidently knew a great deal about arms, and he just bored the hell...
Conant, a former managing editor of The Crimson, was later quoted by James Hershberg in his book James B. Conant as describing the event in this notebook: "My first impression remains the most vivid, a cosmic phenomenon like an eclipse. The whole sky suddenly full of white light like the end of the world...
...most vivid recollection of a afternoon, December 7, 1941. I was a freshman, studying in the second floor library of the Union, a hideaway I used to escape conversation and interruption...
...have been found murdered and grotesquely mutilated. The carnage, screamingly reported in the tabloid press, inspires fear among the citizens and perhaps something else: "It was almost as if they had been waiting impatiently for these murders to happen -- as if the new conditions of the metropolis required some vivid identification, some flagrant confirmation of its status as the largest and darkest city of the world...