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...reflect, by the letters we publish, the numbers, the intensity and the partisanship of the mail we get. But we must also add that in making our choice we show a preference for the letters that have something more to add, by way of argument, or have a vivid way of making their point...
...Jules Romains's Men of Good Will, characters wander across the face of history, vaguely searching for their meaning. When the final volume was published, it was clear that for all his effort, despite brilliant vignettes and telling insights, Romains had achieved only a grandeur of detail, a vivid anatomical drawing of French society. Now, in a slim volume that might also be a coda-like summary, Romains abandons the study of history close-up and attempts a view from afar...
Panting Editors. Sophia found another job posing for photographs for the fumetti, the cheapjack Italian magazines that tell vivid stories with strips of pictures like U.S. comic books. She changed her name to Sophia Lazzaro, suggesting that she could raise men from the dead...
...They stumbled through Normandy's hedgerows in uncoordinated fashion, fighting from ambush and being ambushed. Some cowered on bridges and in apple orchards. Others became heroes. Old Soldier Marshall frequently becomes a bore describing intricate flanking movements (the maps are always on another page), but he offers some vivid vignettes. Among them: "The battle scene in modern warfare is commonly an empty landscape. To feel fire all around, see comrades fall by the score, yet not one living target in sight is the average lot of the infantryman...
...history of the film runs deep: thirty years ago they caused a small revolution, and today, the directors of the Nouvelle Vague look back with admiration at Zero de Conduite and L'Atalante, for they anticipate (and in many ways supersede) modern French attempts to create a vivid sense of milieu on the screen...