Word: vividly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vivid as a Flag. Republic of Katanga was its name, and red, white and green were its colors-"Red for the blood shed for Katanga's freedom, white for purity and green for hope," explained Tshombe in an exultant moment. There also were three Maltese crosses on his banner-in the burnished red-brown of copper. The man was as vivid as the flag. He dressed his mounted honor guard in plumed helmets and blazing tunics bought secondhand from the Garde Républicaine in France, and seated them on broken-down nags sent up from Rhodesia...
...ministers who shouted loudly that police corruption is intolerable, he has helped to revive Boston's saddest and oldest religiously based controversy. The prelate and the policeman in his diocese can still remember when signs were hung announcing that "Drunken Irish need not apply." Their memories are even more vivid and bitter when, seemingly without discrimination, their officals are called corrupt and vicious. Cardinal Cushing's wrath is easy to understand, but his resurrection of religious distrust will only throw a stranglehold on genuine and rational attempts to clean up the city...
...that Tropic is hardly a book at all, but a personality. Quite simply, the incidents and the monologues are the author's life (metaphorically if not literally) and are designed only to reveal him. Miller's personality is the sum and essence of his book. It is a terribly vivid personality. And if we give up the vain attempt to shove his book similiar pigeon-hole labelled "nihilist" or "ash-can school," we find that he is a most and profound...
...been talking for almost an hour on the diminishing interest in physical nature in twentieth century fiction and had noted the vivid joy in nature of 19th century romantic poets and painters. So far, so good, for a Gen Ed lecture, but this was Mary McCarthy and everyone was still waiting for the punchline...
...trash heaps, automobile graveyards, dump trucks dumping, and beer cans floating in the shining sea. Only a freshman in a high school journalism class would have considered it a towering achievement. But after that he settled down to some remarkable short studies, in which the camera work was vivid and the scripts (which he writes himself) tartly acute...