Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sunday Afternoon"--48th Street Theatre. A play about a middle Western dentist and his love. Vivid and amusing with Francesca Bruning and Lloyd Nolan...
...Department of History and Literature has a great deal of intellectual pride -- and that pride is more than half justified. First to establish the tutorial system at Harvard, the department has retained ever since 1909 a vivid sense of its educational objective and of the right function of the tutors in working toward that objective. The tutors are probably more interested in the idea of undergraduate education and more conscious of their part in it than the men of almost any other department...
Tremont--"Rasputin and the Empress." The acting of the three Barrymores makes this film a vivid picture of Russia in the days of sable and ermine...
...regarded as a set of values to be cultivated for their own sake; they may be studied as an achievement of the human mind, and considered from the point of view of style and of technique; they may be pursued as a branch of History, as a particularly vivid expression both of the ideals and of the general character of a period...
Swiftly the stage shifts again to Moscow. In his new capacity the gay young man saw and met Lenin for the first time and the following quotation is his vivid impression of the Red leader: "There was nothing in his personal appearance to suggest even faintly a resemblance to the super-man. Short of stature, rather plump, with a short, thick neck, broad shoulders, round, red face, high intellectual forehead, nose slightly turned up, brownish moustache, and short, stubby beard, he looked more at first glance like a provincial grocer than a leader of men." Later when the Agent knew...