Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...quirks of character, of newly-balanced phrasings. This is, of course, the secret of all good writing; and the prose in this issue of the Monthly is unqualifiedly good writing. It is well diversified, too; a pictorial essay, three stories of character, a short sketch and an intensely vivid study of a young artist's mind. There are no stories of the washed-out O. Henry variety, of the sort that pads out the pages of the usual undergraduate magazine. The verse in this issue is, on the whole, far below the usual Monthly standard, conventional and uninspired...
...tale rather than an essay dealing with it. The style suffers a little in places from the sort of poeticizing that marred Oscar Wilde's "Poems in Prose," but is one the whole graphic and full of sensuous charm. The first paragraph might have been written by Turgenieff, so vivid is it and so full of the very scent and rustle of a landscape...
...state universities. Note also that such great universities as Princeton, Cornell, Columbia and Pennsylvania have only three representatives each, or no more than several of our smaller New England colleges can boast. The figures perhaps prove little, but they have a very real interest, and we get a vivid impression that college friendships, as well as college intellectual training, count in public life when we see a picture of Speaker Clark and Mr. Mann, leader of the opposition, with their arms across each other's shoulders at a college fraternity reunion. Boston Herald...
Miss Hazel Kirk, as Countess Drubetzkoy, sets off the leading lady's part to perfection. Hers is the bouncing vivacious style and she first draws attention in an unusual dance of the silk pantelet sort. Later, her dancing is less vivid, but always it draws applause...
...might have placed the country in a less paralyzed, less ridiculous situation, our immediate helplessness is obviously due to inadequate and antiquated legislative rulings and to the unbelievable characteristics of a few of our legislators. The events of last Saturday and Sunday in the Senate should serve as a vivid object lesson to young men who are just leaving college. Everyone deplores the actions of our political representatives. Older men who are settled in business or some profession feel that it is impossible for them to make a sudden change and turn to politics. It is for the young...