Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Lampoon is found in the drawings. The illustration on the front page, though simple, is yet cleverly done and has the advantage of being well set off by some very appropriate rhymes. Equally good, but in a different way, is the centre-page drawing, which indeed is vivid enough to give the most confirmed grind a start. As for the figures entitled "At the Sophomore-Freshman Game," they have a grotesque realness about them which cannot escape even the most careless observer. So much for the pictures. The rest of the number is well filled with editorials pleasantly harmless, jokes...
...current number of the Monthly appeals strongly to the reader at the start. "The Story of John Reilly, Teamster," which is signed "1883" is a vivid sketch based on a tragedy of family life--the mistaken striving of an Irish girl toward a life which was too dazzling for her ignorance to resist, and the savage grief of her disappointed brother. "In the Thirsty Land" by Rowland Thomas takes its color from the South African war, but it is by no means a common place treatment. Simple pathos is interwoven with a powerful description of the mazes of a wounded...
...number is the verse, "Attila the Hun," which is admirable, with its rapid, abrupt wording. It is full of vitality, and is a relief after the usual descriptive efforts of College poetry. "The Palms of Memphis," by the same author, conveys its impression more quietly, but is nearly as vivid...
...study of literary fashions has three great gains; it aids the sense of proportion in literature, and gives one a vivid perspective; it is an unfailing resource for a sense of humor, and it teaches the permanent value of real literary worth...
...aside from these advantages, the art of telling short stories is dependent on several great laws. It calls for a visual power of a high order and demands certain selective power. In the novel the writer has many opportunities to make his characters vivid, but the short story writer has but one chance. Lastly, the writer of short stories must combine with a vivid imagination, beauty and clearness of expression...