Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present day. Mr. Lewis has studied with his usual his subject and its settings, from "Westward Ho! Hotel" of New York in the early 1900's to Myron's new modern inn in Connecticut, not forgetting even the Tourist Camp of 1933. It still retains that splendid and vivid connectivity of description which characterized "Babbitt," and he has had the good fortune or the wisdom to choose a subject which has proved, in the "Imperial Palace" and in "Grand Hotel" that it is perennially intriguing...
...without sex appeal we should design a suit in vivid red materials; red symbolizes love, fervor and fire. Certainly such a costume would give him a more pleasant experience than any emotional stimulus he may benefit from...
...pathos of this dramatic struggle is not fully drawn out. Mr. Gregory fails to create for us all the tragedy and struggle of the young widow's effort toward faithfulness to her husband and to the demands of her lover. The author's style is clear, simple, and vivid but the profundity of thought necessary for the development of his central theme is lacking to him and the book never rises above mediocrity. It would take a more sensitive mind and a more delicate artistry to achieve the heights in a novel with such a powerful theme and Mr. Gregory...
Fresh from China by way of the U. S. Navy Medical Corps this month came a vivid surgeon's-eye view of heroic Chinese resistance to the Japanese onslaught which swept down from Manchukuo, entered "China proper" through the Great Wall and stopped just short of Peiping (TIME, May 29, et ante}. Excerpts from the report* of Lieut.-Commander Morton D. Willcutts, M. D., the U. S. Navy's observer at Peiping Base Hospital: "The North China soldier rates a much higher military mark than his reverses of the past few months might indicate. . . . Only those wounded...
...feet firmly on the ancient tradition of graphic arts, Artist Speicher has grown firmer in his draughtsmanship, more sure of what he wants to say with each passing year. In 1929 he seemed an able, uninspired follower of the late great George Wesley Bellows, without the latter's vivid interest in living problems. In 1934, as in 1929, Eugene Speicher remains wrapped in the penciled brows of his statuesque beauties, though technically he is now his master's master...