Word: vividly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both meetings were purposely kept informal to permit spontaneity of expression. Hence many of the participants gave a vivid portrayal of life in the Negro ghetto. Many of the complaints heard at the Roxbury-North Dorchester meeting were reiterated at the South End meeting. Feelings of alienation, bitterness, discouragement, and hopelessness were evident in the statements of almost every person. The ghetto residents told the Committee of their constant struggle against the damaging effects of both poverty and prejudice...
...Marvels (recently reported by leading cancer researchers to be the nation's safest cigarette): a cut in tars from 8.6 mg. to 3.7 mg., and in nicotine, from .25 mg. to .13 mg. In another test conducted on about 100 blindfolded smokers, reminiscent of some of the more vivid cigarette ads of a generation ago, three-quarters reported that the filter either had no effect on taste or improved...
Along the way are vivid and beautifully described vignettes of rural France. The pair meets O.A.S. assassins and silky entrepreneurs, dislocated settlers and stranded Arabs. To Marcelle, these encounters are part of the breath of life, but to Nicolas they are increasing evidence that the world consists only of "mawkish absurdity and lunatic atrocity." His crack-up is inevitable and comes with measured solemnity. Each family confrontation-with his brother, who is a worker priest, with his doting father, his enigmatic mother-erodes a bit more of Nicolas' will to live, and so he kills himself...
...contrasts are even more striking. San Francisco's North Beach was a study in black and white; the Haight-Ashbury is a crazy quilt of living color. Black was a basic color in the abstract-expressionist painting of the beats; hippiedom's psychedelic poster art is blindingly vivid. The progressive jazz of the beats was coolly cerebral; the acid rock of the hippies is as visceral as a torn intestine...
...national movement, the Wobblies lasted barely 50 years, but they made it a lively half-century. Their story is sufficiently rich and vivid to survive even the unfortunate cast of academic language employed by the author, a British scholar and an editor of the Oxford Times. To some extent, the Wobblies were the progenitors of today's New Left. They shared the same detestation of contemporary society and the same desire to build a better world...