Word: vividly
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...living it. "Black Power now!" cries Stokely Carmichael. "Action now!" demands Mario Savio. "Drop out now!" urges Timothy Leary. As Buell Gallagher, president of the City College of New York, sees it: "This generation has no Utopia. Its idea is the Happening. Let it be concrete, let it be vivid, let it be personal. Let it be now!" With its sense of immediacy, the Now Generation couples a sense of values that is curiously compelling. It esteems inventiveness, eloquence, honesty, elegance and good looks-all qualities personified in the Now Generation's closest approximation of a hero, John...
...author nearly scuttles his story whenever his captain heads for shore, particularly in one farfetched episode in which Martinus beds down with the wife of a dead shipmate. But De Hartog's descriptions of prowling U-boats and fear-swept sea combat are adroit and chilling, as vivid as Very-lights on a starless night...
Bolt's scenario preserves the prinking wit and rolling eloquence of the play, but the plot has been smoothed and straightened in its passage through the projector. What comes out is a swift and vivid story. Henry VIII (Robert Shaw), having decided to put away a Queen "as barren as a brick," names Sir Thomas (Paul Scofield) as Lord
...Klub, supply a rouged M.C. played with androgynous guile by Joel Grey, bring on hip-roiling, braless chorines with soft-boiled smiles and any kind of love for sale, orchestrate it all to the flesh tones of insinuative tenor saxes, and the atmosphere is complete. It's as vivid and sexy as aboriginal...
Nearly all saw vivid colors. One looked through the window and "saw" a nonexistent work gang on a nonexistent orange bridge. He watched the scene change to a phantom blue lake complete with a phantom ship. Another happily described the chalets in a Swiss village. All these patients enjoyed describing their LSD-distorted visions and did not complain of discomfort even when they reported feelings of being dismembered. They kept moving about to see how this would affect their sensations...