Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Poets have rarely felt so compelled to take account of public interest for good or ill as in the fourth decade of the 20th Century. Putting foot to spade in Europe they have turned over so many clodfuls of dead cultural matter that their most vivid talents. Joyce, Auden, MacDiarmid. Aragon, seem hell-bitten to innocent readers. Among affirmatory fledglings, Revolution or at least the advance of the masses has easily displaced Love and Death...
...popularity was a curiosity to find out how much truth lay behind the scandal which forms the theme of the story, and if the scandal occurred at Exeter. U. S. readers, while immune to this news interest, will still rate Cathedral Close a competent, well-characterized story giving a vivid authentic picture of an environment little less unique than English royalty...
Best parts of Children of Strangers are its portraits of minor plantation characters, its vivid local color. Its awkwardness is the result of Author Saxon's too often hiding Famie's story while he tells the more dramatic and less sentimental story of Cane River...
...Recent disclosures of foreign engineers who have now left the country as a result of the Soviet Union's drive to get rid of foreigners, form a vivid picture of industrial chaos from top to bottom. Foreigners having business with Soviet organizations report them in confusion. They start dealing with one set of executives only to have them disappear and be succeeded by another, who know nothing of what has gone before and who themselves soon disappear, to be succeeded by another set of novices...
South Chicago was quiet, but a vivid description of what a newsreel camera saw Mayor Kelly's police do to the picket army at Republic Steel's barrier month ago (see p. 11), provoked fresh cries of "murder" from the Labor camp...