Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pencilled notes for a forgotten lecture may tell a vivid story. And the few sentences thus written by President Eliot, printed elsewhere today, draw a curiously clear picture. Written as notes for a speech of advice to undergraduates, these brief maxims are the best shor: description of President Eliot that has ever been written...
...LIFE-Francis Brett Young-Knopf ($2.50). Versatile author of psychic Cold Harbour, Conradian Sea Horses, two volume saga Love Is Enough, Dr. (medical) Young now combines a poetic setting in Shropshire with the vivid glitter of Egypt. Ruth Morgan leaves her English countryside to marry an Egyptologist, whose heart, but for an April with her in Shropshire, is buried with tattooed mummies in the tombs of Thebes. Bezuidenhout's work is also in Thebes, but his anthropological research is for the sake of his profession as doctor to the living, and not in adoration of dead antiquity...
...before the opening, gave promise of several interesting characteristics. Most outstanding was the promise of more sustained acting than the Club has shown in some of its recent productions. Spectacular as is the present performance, it nevertheless builds from a solid foundation and does not depend too much upon vivid effects...
...Dramatic Club has caught now and again the vivid quality that Flecker wove into his lilting verse, the subtle thread of his thoughts. Caught it occasionally in the scenery, occasionally in flashes of deftly read lines, but more often in the incidental music and the quick flow of large masses of players. Something of the singing quality of the lines Professor F. C. Packard has infused into the play by some very acute direction. Of the players, Miss Doris Sanger is most effective, but Mr. Leatherbee as the romantic Rafl, Mr. Perry as the Caliph and Mr. Harrington as Hassan...
...history works on the same general principle as the educational film It teaches history almost entirely by illustration. Thus the student merely follows the sequence of pictures through the book, reading, if he cares to, the written marginal notes, and receives a graphic and vivid impression of the appearances and happenings of earlier times. All of them based on authenticated sources, the pictures have an unquestioned value in giving a general idea of by-gone times...