Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Norman Cabot writes with a pleasant hardness and bite of intellectual irony; and Mr. Grant Code is adept in showing his reader a kaleidescope of vivid and colorful details. Mr. Wheelright displays a cleverness which would perhaps be more at home in prose than in verse; and Mr. Merton writes with the neatness, if not with the power, of a Landor. And, finally, in Mr. Snow and Mr. R. Cameron Rogers one finds serious effort toward a self-realization which is not yet quite accomplished, but which holds good promise. Altogether, the book is more than a Harvard anthology...
Italian Naval General Staff expresses highest appreciation of useful and efficient work performed by United States chasers in protecting major vessels during action against Durazzo; also vivid admiration of their brilliant and clever operations which resulted in sinking two enemy submarines...
...acquaint ignorant, eager audiences of the marauding deeds of his vessel. Surprisingly enough, there is an avalanche of protest. An honest raider, perceiving that there is almost as much money in lecturing as in writing Memoirs, proposes to turn an honest penny by presenting to us such interesting, vivid pictures as the blowing up of passenger ships and the sinking of army transports...
...usual studied technique, and her scintillating costumes, but she brought, no feeling of definite characterization, no gripping conviction of flesh and blood and human sensibilities. To one who had seen her in the two previous productions, she was again Mlle. Sorel, the Doucet-costumed, the brilliant technician, the vivid personality, yea, even "the magnificent", but not the sincere worker in the art of portraying character. One begins to suspect, in fact, that Mademoiselle has a very clever press agent...
Davico's "Polyphemus" possesses the virtue (unusual in symphonic poems) of brevity. Its programmatic element is clear and vivid without being unnecessarily involved an interesting work...