Word: vividly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sets, the scene falls flat because it is peopled with characatures. The giggling girls, the pompous general, and the swooning old ladies could be taken from any number of films. And Visconti does not merely present them; he dwells on them. Moreover, he takes two of Lampedusa's most vivid characters and drams them of life. Don Calegro, the uneducated but shrewd mayor, becomes a drunken buffoon. Tancredi, the Prince's favorite, undergoes a rather obvious transition from youthful revolutionary to foppish conservative as the middle class reaction to change sets...
...Inspector General remains farce of the first order, replace vivid and translation and performance are wonderful; they are the major, but not the only reasons for funny show...
PROKOFIEV: SYMPHONY NO. 6 (Columbia). Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra offer a vivid portrait of Prokofiev's worries at their blackest...
...bore little, if any, resemblance to normal or rational attire. All were of one pattern, save only for those of the leader and under leaders. Each was designed to combine a strictly regulated minimum of decorum with yet a more than adequate hint of charm and personality undisclosed. The vivid colours, the high piled coiffures, on which many hours of preparation had been lavised, primping and setting each curly ringlet in place with preparations of rancid butter, wax and oil; the fantastic feathered headdress of the "magajiya" (leader of the female dancers), the throb and beat of the swirling paces...
Another critic I hope stays with the nucleus is Irving Howe, whose piece on C. Wright Mills is a critique of the person, instead of his writing, executed in the best way. That Howe and Mills were at one time friends is central to the article, which discusses with vivid biographical scenes the evolution of Mills' ideas...