Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Concerning the tendencies of modern poetry. Mr. Markham was optimistic. "The tendencies are all away form the pure fantastic and unreal in romanticism to what is vivid and vital in the common human life around us. The poets are taking deeper hold upon reality. Old romantic poets went to the distant and dead to find their strange beauty, but the new find a strange beauty and a tragic terror in the familiar lives of men and women in our workaday world. This might be called strong tendencies towards the democratic in literature. So strong is this tendency that I doubt...
...lost. When interest in European or World politics leads us to discuss the problems of the day, let us be sure we know whereof we speak, Our daily newspapers publish much propaganda that is American-made: either side of a question may be found treated in the most vivid terms according to the attitude of the staff that printed it. The prudent man will read between the lines...
...believe that among those in whom the recollection of the Sanders exercises is still vivid, you will find a widespread dissatisfaction with them, and an equally widespread desire to give the Stadium proposal or other proposals a fair trial of several years' testing. Sincerely yours, PHILIP DUDLEY WOODBRIDGE...
Except for the close student of Russian literature the chief interest of Maxim Gorky's notes and reminiscences of Tolstoy lies not in their biographical value but in their vivid and moving account of the effect made upon one great intellect by another. The short volume makes no pretense of introducing the newcomer to the life and character of Tolstoy; it is an intimate collection of personal experiences, conversations and impressions intended only to throw a little further light upon the somewhat obscure genius of a man whose works have already won him his place among the world's immortals...
...Committee and took an active part in relief work for many months. This committee, in addition to its work in Germany, worked in France and Czarist Russia during the war and is still working in Serbia, Poland, Austria and Soviet Russia. Dr. Cadbury's talk will be made more vivid since he has a large number of slides, including photographs of children, showing many of the actual conditions of suffering and want for the relief of which the Hoover Fund is being raised. He has called his subject "A Relief Worker's Testimony," and his personal experience will enable...