Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most outstanding of these factors contributing to the interest of the narrative. His rise from a college professorship to the presidency of Princeton, thence to the governorship of New Jersey, and finally to the White House, enables his daughter to make this otherwise simple family story a vivid portrayal of the disturbing effects of fame and a public career on their quiet home life. This theme, although rarely dealt with in the past, is a dramatic one, and the writer treats it capably with a touch of humor and a strange note of tragedy that appears even in the moments...
...DREYFUS CASE-Albert and Pierre Dreyfus-Edited by Donald C. McKay- Yale University Press ($3.75). Vivid record of the 19th Century cause celebre; contains a detailed account by his son of Dreyfus' four-year imprisonment on Devil's Island, an unpublished memoir by Captain Dreyfus covering the period from his second conviction (1899) to his acquittal in 1906, together with numerous letters from prominent Dreyfus partisans...
...strength and virility of the American language comes quite as much from the aptness of its native words as from the readiness with which we adopt them. Our best Americanisms, i.e. those most vivid and descriptive, indicate their meaning without definition. Roughneck, for instance, or cloudburst or talented (the English tore their hair over that one, but they use it now) or spellbinder...
Handsome Mrs. Harriman, long one of Washington's favorite social warhorses, has done much in her 66 vivid years to merit this promotion. In 1913 Woodrow Wilson named her the only woman member of the Federal Industrial Relations Commission. The following year her husband, Manhattan Banker J. Borden Harriman, died. She settled down to a career in Washington. During the War she became chairman of the Committee on Women in Industry of the Council of National Defense. Then followed twelve long years of Republican regime...
...wrote it to a poem by Jean Cocteau. After its world premiere in Paris nine years ago, the opera was seldom put on. Many at the U. S. premiere last week, listening to the puzzled, formless music, thought they could tell why. Others were impressed by the vivid passages of declamation, the odd, unpleasant story of a woman who murdered her husband unbeknown...