Word: vividly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Among the most conspicuous champions today are the fighters for civil rights, and perhaps posterity will find a degree of heroism in that quiet man, Earl Warren, who wrote the historic decision striking down separate-but-equal education. But heroism requires panache, which makes Martin Luther King a more vivid current hero...
...film that did survive was remarkable nonetheless. With their ship facing backward during its return into the earth's atmosphere, the astronauts took some vivid color movies of a sheath of gases glowing with purple, blue and green incandescence as it was heated by the friction of the spacecraft's passage. They were the first re-entry photographs ever taken. As Gemini plunged into denser atmosphere, the colors increased in brilliance: a sharply defined blue shock wave expanded, and hot, golden fragments ripped loose from the glowing heat shield to shoot past the window in a dazzling stream...
Morning brings him a chirping plague of creditors, the numbing guilt of not loving a wife (Vivien Leigh) who is dying of tuberculosis, and the intrusive ardor of a romantic girl who is pursuing her own phantom of love. Around Ivanov, vivid, vulgar, irascibly self-absorbed neurotics drown boredom in vodka and talk, the opiate of the Russian gentry. Ivanov punctuates their endless sentences with a bullet in his brain...
...Jethro Furber, the outrageously vivid villain of this orgiastically original first novel, William Gass presents a hilarious portrait of the Puritan as a dirty old man. In Brackett Omensetter, the "wide and happy" hero of the book, he offers an archetypal antithesis: "Like the clouds, he was natural and beautiful, like a piece of weather in the room. Life eased from him like a smooth broad crayon line. He knew the secret...
...thing can be applied to Talk Stories. It is best to read them separately, savoring their gem-like quality. Read all at once, they smother the reader in "we's" and miles of details. But since they appeared over the last five years, the individual stories paint entertaining and vivid sketches of urban life in the '60's with Miss Ross setting the mood...