Word: vividly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...short, U.S. higher education's most vivid lesson today is that getting into college on paper may be a lot easier than getting to it in person.' Maybe the only solution is to turn colleges into educational drive-in movie theaters -how else can they teach students who cannot get out of their cars...
POINT OF ORDER. Senator Joseph McCarthy and Attorney Joseph Welch face off as adversaries in a vivid documentary taken from the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings...
Dare I admit that now my most vivid recollection of my first year's apprenticeship is a phase from a lecture on waste disposal? The teacher of this training course was a lively master plumber, whose name, unfortunately, has long since left me. For this particular lecture he had written a short whimsical account of the progress of waste from Claverly Hall down to the Charles River. At one point he described the meeting of this waste with run-off from the bakery rooms of the University kitchens and said it would be impossible for the two to be confluent...
...portrait of Ethel, put her in an automatic snapshot studio in Times Square and fed heaps of quarters into it. "Now start smiling and talking," said the artist, while the mechanical camera took scores of candids, "this is costing me money." Then Warhol silk-screened 35 of the most vivid views onto squares of canvas, colored variously to give them the psychologically potent hues, producing a serial portrait of a woman in love with life...
McCarthy and Welch were only the leaders of the battle: some of the most vivid scenes center around their allies, cohorts, and lieutenants. Ever present beside McCarthy, sitting close at his elbow and whispering constantly in his ear, is one of the strangest participants, Roy M. Cohn. In one scene Counsel Welch is cross-examining one of McCarthy's assistants about where a "doctored" photograph which McCarthy introduced as evidence came from. Welch inquires sarcastically if a "pixie" brought it in, and Cohn leans over to whisper something in McCarthy...