Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Adams's account of the Irish dramatic movement is a capable and finished essay of which any literary magazine might be proud, Mr. Britten's "The Smartness of Mr. Warden" is somewhat talky, but readable and clever, and Mr. Skinner's anecdote "The Substitute" is interesting and vivid. The editorials are able and to the point...
...anecdotes, serving as contributions of fiction, are the merest amiable trifles, though Mr. Peterson's work again declares his rare faculty of careful observation of outer nature and of personal emotion. In "Lost at Sea" Mr. Gilkey has wasted his finished metrical technique and his vivid sense of the rhythm of blank verse upon an incoherent story of a poetical cabin boy marooned upon a desert island by an ogre-like sea captain. Had the poem been long enough to admit of an explanation of the captain's hatred, the narrative might at least have seemed possible...
...depend on the effect of the children and their speeches. They are much better written than anyof the other dialogues in the piece. There is a pathetic humor running through them that may prove deeply touching. Even in the manuscript, the picture of suffering childhood in the mill is vivid. On these elements of humanness the popular appeal of the play must rest, much more than upon the somewhat commonplace story that it tells.--Boston Transcript
...believed to command in rare degree, all the varied attributes needed by the successful teacher and investigator. His work immediately vindicated the choice; and he was promoted, in 1905, to an assistant professorship. He succeeded in so illuminating an involved and technical subject as to show clearly the vivid interest of its underlying facts and the ories; moreover, he had already begun to make his mark among the forward looking band, who seek to discover not merely the products, but also the mechanism, of organic changes. His academic advancement was assured; he loved the University, he rejoiced in his opportunity...
...lecture was illustrated by colored slides, made from photographs which Mr. Barr himself took while in the north. These give a very vivid idea of the bleakness and cold of the summer there, the hardships and privations of its life...