Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second volume, however, that praise is really merited. Within its 261 pages lies a wealth of enlightening information concerning present conditions in Britain. The chapter entitled The Story of British Economic Development and that on the Labor Movement are brilliant pieces of analysis forming a reliable and vivid background to the understanding of the economic and political problems with which contemporary Britons are struggling...
...this boss, outlawed by the respectable element, who proves the only consistent person. He reunites husband and wife and gives the mortgage another chance. William Courtleigh made this rugged character seem real, despite the sanctity of his enforced halo. His was the most vivid personality in the play, and patrons went out smacking their lips over his aphorism: "A political platform is like a streetcar platform?it's not to stand...
...Significance. The plot is not the thing, in any event. It is the way of its telling that makes this novel unique. In oddly blurred, yet impossibly vivid, shimmering sentences, this rich ambling becomes an absorbing tale. In what its author calls "a romance of bad manners," he has sketched those nebulous days just after the Civil war, for our contemporary gaze...
...short, wiry, nervous, eager, tremendously serious. I have talked with him only once, but it is impossible to forget this dark, vivid little man. No man who was not serious could be so successful, or could take the pains he does in collecting material for his stories. His new novel, to be called Wild Horse Mesa, is about a great mesa which rises above the canyon country of southern Utah. Mr. Grey has made three attempts to climb this piece of land, in order to provide the climax for his novel?each time he has failed. The climax...
...your editorial this morning (June 11) entitled "Soup, Fish and Efficiency," you presented a vivid picture of the horrors of Memorial Dining Hall and Cafeteria. I have eaten at the Cafeteria for two years and find your picture overdrawn. I do not think the food is of "secondary quality," otherwise I should not have stayed so long. The cooking I do not consider "poor and tasteless." If this has driven anyone away, on the other hand I know of an individual who left because the food was flavored too strongly. The Cafeteria cannot hope to satisfy all extremes of taste...