Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...impersonation of health, vigor, and purity, moral as well as physical and intellectual. He was an Elizabethan man in his qualities and temperament: a poet, above all, of keen susceptibilities and sympathies; gifted, furthermore, with a remarkable creative power in English expression, especially in extempore speech, pungent, vivid, finding always--if sometimes he had to make it--the fit word; impetuous, generous, the soul of honor, scornful of meanness and falsehood, swift in thought and manner, too swift at times for sluggish wits...
...correspondents should be allowed within the city limits, Mr. Emerson, although obtaining numerous photographs of siege operations, was finally expelled from Port Arthur; and after some time on a Chinese junk, was eventually captured by the Japanese blockading fleet. It was from the Japanese ranks that he obtained his vivid photographs of the bloody assault on "203-Metre Hill." On his refusal, however, to disclose to General Nogi his knowledge of the Russian fortifications, the lecturer was imprisoned for some time at the Japanese naval base at Sasebo, where he was eventually paroled...
...Conservatoire de Musique at Paris, who has furnished a copy of the original manuscript, now in the Paris archives, that is possible to reproduce the exact musical environment of this play. The orchestra will include an historic harpsichord, lent for the occasion from the Chickering collection. In vivid contrast to this classic comedy will be the extremely lively and amusing farce, "L'Anglais Tel Qu'on le Parle," an example of the modern French realistic school...
...Millet began with a review of the physiographic features of the Balkan Peninsula, which, in the past, as in the present, have made it the storm center of the Eastern question. He then summer up the historic influences which have moulded the East of today and gave a vivid description of the countries and the men who have been prominent in its history...
...follow as nearly as possible the Greek method of staging a play in the last part of the fourth century before Christ. Such conventions as are known will be followed, but in some cases allowances will have to be made for modern dramatic ideas. The coloring will be more vivid and the effects, as was undoubtedly the case, will be more extreme than the current ideas of antiquity seem to sanction. The advice and help of competent people will be used to make the play as interesting as possible...