Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alexander Woollcott: "It is a sleazy, disorderly and generally negligible piece, but its central role is a vivid and unusual...
...Ponjola", Cynthia Stockley has given us a very real and vivid picture of South Africa--its life, and its people. Her intimate knowledge of the locality and her undeniable powers of description have united to make the veldt of Rhodesia live before our eyes. We can see the drab, ramsrackle villages; the deserted mines; the winding, dusty roads. We begin to understand the peculiar fascination which lies in the broad, barren stretches of desert country--a fascination which grips all who make their dwelling there...
...mould paint them at dusk, or half-hidden with rain, coated with snow, or red with the sunset. The musical expression, " Air, with variations," is true in many senses of Monet's greatest work. The famous series are exquisite color harmonies, -blurred if the observer stands too close, vivid and truthful if he steps back,-but not so much pictures of haystack or fields, as of the changing light and air which surround them. Monet was working, when his eyesight failed, on the last of his great series, the so-called Nympheas, 300 separate paintings of a single lily...
...musical note; above all, to develop individuality rather than to compress into uniformity. It is ambitious; it does not meet the plea for greater economy. But unlike the other programs, it considers the child. In the tender years when the nature of the child is expanding, when its vivid imagination is struggling for expression, the curriculum must give it elbow-room instead of cramping and stunting it within the bounds of the three R's. And certainly, as one educator says, when the American people spend twenty two billions of dollars yearly on luxuries, they should be willing to spend...
...MacKaye's poem is finely imagined, and movingly though not quite impeccably phrased. The nursery drama sketched by Mr. Hale has charm and symbolic value. The most vivid prose in the number is Mr. Swayze's half-page about "the gods behind the gods...