Word: vividly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Boring enrolled in Titchener's course in elementary psychology in the fall of 1905; the verve of Titchener's lecturing remained vivid five years later when, after working eighty-four hours a week for a year in a steel plant, Boring went back to Cornell. He intended to try for an A.M. in physics, so he could teach, but again got trapped into psychology--this time by earthworms, paramecia, and flatworms...
West has used a number of fictional devices to make vivid this confrontation of Christendom and Communism. The horror of nuclear war and atomic fallout is made a live issue by the birth of monster babies in Rome. They have been deformed by the merciful work of a doctor who gave their mothers a new soothing drug-something like thalidomide-and. with equal mercy, kills their offspring. The critical point between science and morals thus gives narrative weight to the Pope's concern over atomic...
...this world, and yet it has its own necessary coherence-as shown by the dramatic moments described in this week's cover story on the epic flight of Gordon Cooper. Nowadays everyone from garage mechanics to gospel singers have their own lingo, their own shorthand, and their own vivid phraseology. It might be possible to put out an issue of TIME in the 850 words of Basic English, but to do so would be to leave out an essential vitality in the way Americans do and say things...
...Bissinger has carefully rehearsed one of the finest casts assembed on a Harvard stage in recent years. As the fisherman who suspects the Americans' motives, Harry Cooper is vivid and strong. Anne Lilley Kerr is convincing in her desire, and Josephine Simon succeeds in transforming Rachel Verney's unique postwar experience into one of dramatic pertinence. Otto Holmberg turns the not-too-intriguing son into a sympathetic figure...
Stewart recalled that he had spent many pleasant moments with President Griswold over the past ten years. "Whit Griswold has been a champion of the best in intellectual life in Yale University and elsewhere," he said. "As president of Yale he has given it all the advantages of a vivid personality and a restless mind...