Word: vividly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Schulz fights for his strip with vehemence because he puts so much of himself into Peanuts' world. So vivid have his strip characters become to him that he talks of them as if they were members of the household. (They are as real to readers, who have sent blankets to Linus, valentines to Charlie, and a variety of clothes to Snoopy.) The psychiatry Schulz includes in Peanuts comes from his own intuition; he seldom reads any weighty tomes. "I try to remember that basically cartooning is drawing funny pictures. So I just draw some kind of wild action...
...local critics were not deaf at last week's Boston opening, either. Elinor Hughes (Herald) found the number "just great." Kevin Kelly (Globe) cited Price's "vivid performance" and said he "sings with enough power and feeling to bring the roof down, and he does." Alta Maloney (Traveler) called it "a whopper of a show-stopper, sung in a voice that made chills go up and down the spine." T.K. Morse (Patriot Ledger) found him "glorious." Bradford Swan (Providence Journal) said Price sang "superbly," and Donald Cragin (Worcester Telegram) felt he performed "with the verve of one who has practiced...
...charged that the press "has reported only the vivid occurences--tho demonstrations--misrepresenting the strength of the Communist movement...
...setting is ostensibly remote-Warsaw's 600-year-old ghetto. And Singer's novel might be read only as a superbly vivid chronicle of its last years, from just before World War I, when dwarfs still sold whips for naughty children in the streets, to the outbreak of World War II, when its destroyed people stared into its shattered ruins as if into Abaddon, the bottomless pit of hell...
...also a story of what has been lost in the passing of a stable old way of life-and what was gained and not gained by the new. This equation is viewed with neither regret nor reproach. The story is principally told through its varied, vivid characters. Reb Meshulam Moskat is a patriarch with a talent for victory, who manages his business and his family with a high, old-fashioned hand. But not without opposition. "I spin and I spin and nothing comes of it. I've had two wives, seven children, given out dowries, supported sons...