Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...current issue of the Graduates' Magazine contains a vivid description by Professor R. B. Merriman '96 of his experiences in France and at the French front. Extracts of this article are given below...
...further evidence in the number. Professor Merriman writes a vivid account of "A Day at the French Front," and Mr. Cutler gives some illuminating matter relating to the ambulance work undertaken by the University medical units. There is ample proof contained in "War Notes" that Harvard men have worked and fought, and some have died, upon European battlefields; and that honorable and unselfish service has been rendered...
...only for the unexpected variety of the sketches and the poems. Only one worn theme appears. In "Instans Tyrannus" the author's occasional success in humorous phrasing gives only partial vitality to a rather cheap and bromidic sketch. The description of "The Round Up" by Mr. Fleming is vivid in spots and needs only a greater trimness of style to be even more effective. In his sketch after Tolstoi, Mr. Amory has achieved success in the difficult art of intelligent parody. The picture of Adam Agnostovitch mowing the lawn for fifteen hours was worth drawing. The best piece of prose...
...common standards the 'Trojan Women' is far from a perfect play; it is scarcely even a good play," but it must be admitted that as a dramatic spectacle it is an impressive production. What little plot there is, is soon lost sight of and there only remains a vivid impression of situations frought with tenseness, and the sight of the women of fallen Troy, waiting in sorrow to hear their lot. At a time when a victory is won we look for the hymns of praise and the joy of the conquerors, but Euripides sees only the misery...
...Peddler's Pack" is vivid, imaginative, individual, quaint--much the best thing in the number, both in conception and in execution. "An Aesthete's Nightmare" proves how rare the extreme aesthete type is in our midst--Mr. Dos Passos would never have to resort to such obvious and wholesome objects of art as the Venus de Milo, a Buddha, and Parrish's "Pirate Ship" if he had ever seen the animal in the wild state in his native lair--in Oxford, for instance...