Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This course is highly recommended not only to the concentrator in physics, but to anyone who can meet its modest requirements. It provides a satisfying half year in which the student can cash in on his hard-earned elementary knowledge, and receive a vivid though simplified impression of the most interesting "Modern Developments in Physics...
...occurred to me that TIME might be interested in knowing that Artist John Steuart Curry (TIME, April 10) achieved considerable recognition as an athlete while in [Geneva] college (Beaver Falls, Pa.). On the cinder path his 220 low hurdle and 220 dash are among the most vivid memories of action which the writer can recall. He could always be counted on for first place in these events. His speed was utilized on the eleven as third man on the triple pass, then comparatively new. Invariably he would pass the line of scrimmage ahead of the first man receiving the pass...
...meaty lectures of Professor Morize and Allard on French literature from the 12th century to the present day. Although the other sections are conducted by able enough men, their presentation of the hasty survey, approximately 12 lectures on the leading writers of each century, is naturally not as vivid and detailed yet at the same time as comprehensive as that of Professor Morize, who is a romantic at heart, and is inclined to resent the disparaging remarks made by members of other departments about Victor Hugo, or of Professor Allard, whose inimitable fashion of talking attracts many students...
...which are given by an imposing roster of all the shining lights of the department, are lamentably disappointing. The course has been aptly called a revue; it should be added that the songs and dances of the professorial chorines are in the main dusty and dull. Instead of creating vivid pictures of the great English men of letters and their work, most of the lecturers, through sloth or indifference, confine themselves to a leisurely recounting of when an author lived, where he went to school, what he wrote, and what critics have said about him since; and all of that...
After the War, Leo Sowerby went again to Europe, the first composer to be awarded a fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. In Rome his colleagues twitted him for wearing suits that were a little too natty, for ties that never quite went with his vivid shirts, for preferring burned beefsteak to the Italian delicacies that the other Prix de Rome students were learning to fancy, for sitting down methodically eight hours a day to write music which might or might not go into the wastebasket...