Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First to set up a pathological laboratory at a medical school (Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan), he was the first medical educator to pair research with instruction. Called "Popsy" by friends and students, Dr. Welch was portly, friendly, modest. He was one of "The Four Doctors" of the vivid Sargent painting which hangs in the William H. Welch Medical Library at Johns Hopkins. Of the others -Sir William Osler, Dr. William Stewart Halsted and Dr. Howard Atwood Kelly- only the last survives...
...uncommon mental capacity, entirely devoid of intellectual arrogance. He had that charm of personality which attaches to one of independent judgment. He had that quality of soul which makes a man a spiritual influence, whether within or without the forms of conventional religious expression. Remembrance of him is too vivid to put in the past tense. The memories of him are of a boy whom to know about was to admire, whom to work with was to respect, whom to associate with was to love...
Directed in the vivid, light style of Rene Clair and Ernst Lubitsch, the French film is a musical romance which manages to maintain its delightful simplicity and humor, although it does show a definite Hollywood influence by including a chorus scene of the standard Busby Herkeley type. Excellent photography and really amusing sequences more than atone for the nature of the plot, which is too juvenile to justify elucidation...
...that she has made use of stories told her by her father's sister, who had these stories from her father, who had heard them from his mother, who had heard them from some one else. Of such is history made. This legendary atmosphere helps to make the story vivid but it also brings the kitchen-parlor element into unfortunate prominence. It is the first factor in making the book a colloquial story rather than a history...
...growing realization of the vast educational possibilities presented by motion pictures and in many schools this graphic method of teaching has been advanced to a position of prime importance. Wide use of moving pictures in science, history, and fine arts courses would offer all students the advantage of a vivid, concise presentation of carefully arranged subject matter and would reduce the burden of lecturing to the minimum. At Harvard it would allow the upper stratum of the faculty, now overweighted with course work, to devote more of its time to individual and tutorial studies. These benefits cannot be secured...