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...driven her to bring in lavish chocolate sweets for her Fairy Tales section and to dress in full Medieval garb from the ART for her Medieval Court section, has made huge efforts to provide an off-campus party for her German A class. She said one of her most vivid memories of her days socializing with undergraduates was when she picked up the six students from her German A class in her 1977 Chevy so she could drive them to her home...
...infamous Morris has not made up some of his nicely observed details, and not just because so much of this book has the hurtling pace and alert eye of good fiction. So did Morris' Pulitzer prizewinning first volume, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. That account was as robust and vivid as Teddy himself--probably the last President to have knifed a cougar...
...their own turf, no less). Once on the field, I turned to see none other than President Lawrence H. Summers milling among the jubilated crowds. No time to consider proper protocol, I went with my instincts and asked him to pose for a celebratory photo. Just another of the vivid memories, the snapshots really, that whether stored away in an album or in tucks and folds of my mind, will help to relive or at least recount my four wonderful years here...
...what exactly makes these novels so wildly successful? Is it Rowling’s charismatic characters with whom everyone can relate? Her witty, brisk dialogue? Her tongue-in-cheek humor? Her vivid descriptions? Her fantastical names and whimsical jargon? Or, more likely, have kids simply exhausted the worlds of C.S. Lewis’ Narnia Chronicles and J.R.R. Tolkien’s Ring Fellowship and even that staple of childhood fantasy, Roald Dahl, welcoming J.K. Rowling’s more approachable—and more marketable—Hogwarts...
...Rowling succeeds in painting a vivid picture of a magical world that forces the reader to use his or her imagination and enter Harry’s world. It is easy enough to relate to Harry’s life with his aunt and uncle, because people like that certainly exist in everyday life; however, it takes a leap to put oneself in the world that begins on Platform Nine and Three-quarters at the train station. Part of the draw of these books is that exact leap, stretching one’s imagination further than normal life allows. Perhaps...