Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...disputes would be lost on a modern audience and the broadly humorous Balaam could for obvious resons not be introduced. Nevertheless, the five characters who remained of the Prophet Play, Isaiah Aaron, the Sibyl, the High Priest and St. Augustine, ably acted as they were, gave a sufficiently vivid impression of this characteristically German portion of the miracle...
...Samuel F. B. Morse's portrait of the aged Marquis de Lafayette to George W. Bellows' famed "Club Night," the trim parade moves on. No circus procession, this, but the orderly march of a club of oddfellows in plain clothes. Here and there moves a strong or vivid figure† Sargent Bellows or Pennell† but the exhibit gave critics an opportunity to point out once more that the art of an enterprising commercial century is, by convention, dull. Of the celebrated pictures and sculpture they could find nothing new to say, and after examining the many other...
...believe in your God. . . . I do not wish to bring the rancor of religious discussion into politics. . . ." He gave lectures which brought him a vast fortune; he gave his money away. A famous man called his speech on "The Gods" at Cooper Union, N.Y., "the boldest, strongest, most vivid utterance of a century." But thousands of others were displeased with him. He died...
...dragging trousers, "kidney-exposing waistcoats", and everything else that makes the male a pleasing object, at least to himself; and ends with the suggestion that, discarding all such modifications of the strait-jacket, men attire themselves in gaudy jumper blouses, short fur coats, bright colored pajamas and shoes of vivid leathers. The desideratum suggests nothing so much as a musical comedy's presentation of a street scene in Russia...
...have read and greatly appreciated the treatises on the 14th Zionist Congress, now held in Vienna (TIME, Aug. 24-31). Your correspondents certainly deserve praise for presenting news so correctly and in so concise and vivid a manner; only one thing was to be viewed with alarm-the fact that this news was under the RELIGION section. As stated, the Congress was to discuss such problems as "Should the colonization of the Jews in Palestine be based on socialistic or capitalistic methods?", "Should the policies of Great Britain, as pursued under the commissionership of Sir Herbert Samuel, be approved...