Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lost patience, threw Jones's art class out of the Courthouse. On the walls of the Manhattan gallery last week were signs of Joe Jones's Communism-We Demand, Garbage Eaters, Demonstration, The New Deal. There was also unmistakable talent and power. Notable was American Justice, a vivid picture of a prostitute who had been lynched by hooded Ku-Kluxers. St. Louis and environs were there in fat wheat fields, freight sidings, Second and Biddle Streets, Missouri River. Chimed the critics: ''An auspicious affair, uneven in quality but interesting throughout and full of promise...
...anxious to keep Italy from a too elaborate, too expensive campaign in Abyssinia for another reason. Keeping Nazi Germany from absorbing Austria and growing too big is a vital point in France's foreign policy. Italy long ago undertook to do that chore for her. With her own vivid memories of the expenses and difficulties of an African campaign, France was frightened last week that if Italy were once embarked on an Abyssinian campaign she would be forced to send so many troops to Africa that Adolf Hitler would have the chance of a lifetime to stage a coup...
Belles-lettres are practically overwhelmed in this avalanche of social neuroses. Mr. Ames' "Two Beers" is a brief and vivid picture of an episode in contemporary life that chimes in with the bleak tone of the other writers. Mr. Strauss' "Third Class" is an able story in which, as the title indicates, the consciousness of social maladjustment figures, perhaps in this case too much dragged in by the horns. This story would, I think, be an altogether admirable job if Mr. Strauss had not at one point joined a long line of authors whose seriously intended effects have been rudely...
...BATES, the very young English writer, known hitherto in this country for his volume of short stories entitled "The Woman Who Had Imagination," has produced a vivid and appealing account of the life, love and disappointments of an illegal rabbit-snarer in his novel "The Poacher...
Elsewhere in the CRIMSON are far more eloquent testimonials than we could ever pen to one of Harvard's most distinguished and best loved figures. That his former pupils, writing years after graduation, still retain a vivid picture of Copey as an individual, and still appreciate his peculiar abilities as a teacher, is to those who know him praise more fitting than surprising...