Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. One of the best paid and most popular short story writers in America, here accepts and adapts expressionistic technique for the purpose of telling a simple and moving story. The result is by far the best work Miss Hurst has done?amazingly clever, astonishingly vivid in spite of occasional verbal extravagances, admirably sincere in intent...
Charles Hanson Towne in the International Book Review: "A slash here, a slash there, and we have a perfect picture. Vivid as lightning?and as terrifying...
...Carpentier fight. He has changed in appearance since then. Today he seemed a quiet, stocky, dark little man in a dark suit, peering through thick glasses, with shoes that were rugged and might have been prescribed for the Boy Scouts. Before, as I recall, he wore splendid shirts and vivid suits, and his manner was boisterous in the extreme. Both times I liked him immensely. He is like his books-breezy, enthusiastic, cordial. Since Sir John Deering, his new novel, just about to be published, he has written twelve chapters of another. The one after that, he informed us, will...
...grey and venerable old director (Rella), garbed in ecclesiastical red, standing before his surpliced singers, signaled with his arms, and promptly, without a single instrumental note to give the pitch, sounded a full vocal chord of perfectly true intonation. The choir sang with strong and vivid nuances. The basses were marvelous, sometimes like a deep bell note; the tenors were rich and full; the treble voices, of boys and men, were of that clear, sexless beauty that is characteristic of male sopranos and altos. Sometimes in the piano passages the voices moved with the exquisite nuances of violins; then sounded...
...dramatist and novelist he possesses, it seems to me, two distinct qualities: a feeling for the sweep and power of dramatic passion and an ability to analyze it- always cynically. It was interesting to watch him the other evening with Charlie Chaplin-Chaplin, mobile, eager, gay, as vivid as a flame and as naive as Peter Pan, yet somehow as subtle as life itself; Somerset Maugham, bending toward him, quiet, dark, reserved, cynical, observant, interpretative. They are both geniuses-they almost represent the two types of genius-spontaneous creation of life and analytical sounding of the human mind...