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...kind of intensity that persists in the mind's eye for a lifetime. John's view of Poet Dylan Thomas, with the poet's chubby face and curly hair, hits a high pitch of adolescent sensuality, freshness and innocence; it might well outlast Thomas' own vivid verse...
...made a rapid recovery. He went down on a Guggenheim Fellowship, carrying a Brownie, and returned with a suitcase full of snapshots to use for filling in the details of his imaginary compositions. He found the life of the Indians, in rags beneath their ancient monuments, as moving and vivid as his gloomiest dream. "There's always some disaster," he says happily. "They spend half their lives in the fields and on the roads-without an auto, without a Frigidaire. The bareness is what appeals...
...South. De Forest had a faculty for revealing put-up jobs, or detecting phony sentiments, simply by writing down what people said. His recital of his postwar experiences in the Freedmen's Bureau in Greenville, S.C. is compounded of vivid scenes and well-remembered dialogue. Yet, say his editors, his book has not been used in any of the standard histories of the Reconstruction. One reason: historians have considered the Reconstruction as "a series of political transactions, rather than as the story of a people defeated, a race enfranchised, and a society overturned...
...distinguished primarily for simple realism, a forthright, almost childlike honesty, a command of ordinary speech, a cool and effortless narrative style, quickened here & there with a mild, understated humor. The battle scenes are so vivid as to suggest Tolstoy's War and Peace, the common soldiers as clearly visualized as Tolstoy's peasants. Unlike Tolstoy's masterpiece, it is all war, not only in the sense that there are no scenes of peaceful life poised against the scenes of war, but in the sense that a knowledge of the meaning of peace is absent from the psychology...
Roger Lemelin, himself the son of a mulot, has drawn, in The Town Below, a thickly atmospheric portrait of St. Sauveur. He wrote it on the family kitchen table, while his numerous brothers & sisters did their homework on the other end. Lemelin loves the vivid, sharp-tongued mulots but at times he is overcome with despair over their backwardness and superstitions...