Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...calamitous flop; and the hero of the story is not her erratic young fiance but an aging, bibulous matinee idol to whose portrayal Adolphe Menjou lends the Barrymore mannerisms that have become traditional for such roles since The Royal Family. These, and Director John Stahl's watchful, vivid treatment of situations which would have been threadbare with less careful handling, give the picture exactly that air of conviction in which most such fables are deficient...
...vague memory of my son and in vivid hopes of their sons, if parents, while preserving freedom of speech, compel the integrity of public education, then my son may not have died wholly in vain. But should parents fail in this perpetual vigil of peace, then in war will come slaughter between Communist sons and loyal sons -not abroad but at home...
...three years ago after his work was banned, not because it was abstract, but because he was Jewish. Franz Marc, represented by his famed Blue Horse, considered by many a critic the most brilliant of German moderns, was killed at Verdun in 1916, not before he had turned out vivid abstractions that run counter to Hitler's esthetic creed. But the casualties of war and poverty were dwarfed by the exiles represented: Abstractionist Paul Klee, Satirist George Grosz, Lyonel Feininger, who became a champion bicycle racer before he became one of the leading German cubists. For the London show...
...such level of eloquence and penetration as James's monograph, Author Armstrong's biography is nevertheless written with care and understanding. Her subject is a "natural," and, thanks to the fact that she quotes liberally from Fanny Kemble 's own vivid journals, the result ably suggests the reanimating qualities that inspired James's enthusiasm...
...diet, of the minimum amount of food necessary to keep a family alive: too many go without this amount. There is the housing problem, and three is the inevitable problem of relief. Using anecdote, case histories, statistics, Mr. Hicks puts forward the case for the under-privileged with vivid realism. It is a superficial survey, but presented with irony and understatement it is a powerful stimulant to thought...