Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this is done, one will like George O'Donnell's poem "Evening to Morning" for its simple but convincing imagery; he will think Laughlin's own poetry too simple, too bare. Because of its vivid picture, like a penetrating flash, "Mannikin," by Francis Fergusson, has strong appeal. On the other hand, one used to conventional poetry will tire of playing anagrams with the poems of Cummings; he will laugh at Robert Fitzgerald's surrealism, which Laughlin explains as the principle of redefinition by incongruity...
...built around the life of Napoleon Bonapart, "Conquest," the current feature at the University, might well have been simply another historical drama. Actually, it is far more than that; it is a careful portrayal of a very human character. So masterful is the direction and acting, and so vivid is the resulting picture of Napoleon, that if for no other reason, "Conquest" is an outstanding success...
...Rehn Galleries, 24 new paintings by Ceramist-Architect-Painter Henry Yarnum Poor convinced critics that Mr. Poor at 49 had done well to leave his ovens cold and his drafting board dusty. Freer, more decisive, more vivid than any past productions of this able artist, the paintings affected other beholders like a bracing breeze. First Range of the Rockies, done in Colorado last summer, was a majestic landscape in greens and purples, given an effect of great distance by the sharp, tiny black shadows of cabins in a valley foreground. The Golden Tree, one of the largest, best-designed canvases...
Familiar with the liturgy from his visits with the monks in the ancient monastery on Mt. Athes, he has acted as adviser to the Russians in their restoration of a "lost", Byzantine church in Kiev. Through him a little known period of architecture takes on a vivid interest...
...authoritative and practical, the guides sometimes fall between two stools, sometimes overelaborate local wonders, sometimes tantalizingly skim the surface of some item of unfamiliar history. From the browsing reader's point of view, boldest and best of the books is the anecdotal Cape Cod Pilot, which includes a vivid account of the sinking of the submarine 8-4 off Provincetown, manages to treat old and new Cape Cod with the same good-natured detachment. Almost every book shows flashes of inspired writing. Even the pedestrian Lincoln City Guide of Lincoln, Neb. brightens up in its account of the temperance...