Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco's opera has had a more glorious, if more sporadic past. In the gold-rush days San Franciscans favored the vivid, glamorous music of the theatre...
...walks she and William and Samuel Coleridge would make of impressions of the fugitive beauty of a scene, or of the way the leafless branches looked against the moon. These Mrs. MacLean has gleaned from the voluminous Journal and the letters, and presented them so that they give a vivid impression of Dorothy's life and personality...
...Brother Alfred. Persuasive Elie Faure, French critic, is Walter Pach's best friend. In 1930 he finished a translation of Faure's vast and authoritative History of Art. To the general public Walter Pach is not a painter at all but a mustache attached to a vivid, exciting personality. He was one of the organizers of the historic Armory Show of 1912 that introduced Matisse. Picasso and Cezanne to the bewildered U. S. For years he has blazed a defense of modern painting up & down the columns of a dozen newspapers and magazines in language that would have...
...despite these minor irritations, "Fighting for Fun" is a story of healthy, Vigorous sport, untainted by professionalism, and of a vivid, if a bit egocentric, personality. Although he can hardly be considered as a great literary artist, Eddie Eagan has written a terse, straight-forward narrative, both interesting and refreshing...
...photographs, all vivid, some gruesome, at the end of the book Hemingway illustrates and comments, not always with that reverence expected of devotees. "While here we have the ox built for beef and for service who might have been president with that face if he had started in some other line of work." Before he had seen any bullfights himself, Hemingway had the usual Anglo-Saxon prejudice against them, but ''I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death." Before...