Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This strong yet simple motif is what gives the piece a backbone and makes of it, a coherent entity. Such long narrative poems must be more than a collection of vivid images to make a lasting impression on the reader. The undiscriminating bunches of images and short imaginative flights so often strung into a narrative of sorts would be much better chopped up into separate lyrics. They need to be strongly and vigorously subordinated to the central motif so that they do not stand out as an occasional flashing jewel on a wire but, as Mr. Morrison succeeds so well...
...characters Rose Leighton emerges as much the most vivid and alive. A few deft lines of description give an unforgettable picture of her and the portrayal of her thoughts gives one an insight into the sweetness of her character and womanliness...
...miscreants must be impressed by the organs of undergraduate opinion that their actions are violently contrary to tradition and that they are viewed in genuine disgust by the undergraduate body. But this is not enough. As a vivid example to those who labor under this rioting complex, recent offenders must be meted strict punishment by the University authorities and by the courts. Finally, the punishment must be known publicly...
...make all this more vivid Stalin envisioned what he conceives to be the current consternation in Capitalist countries. "Look," he cried, "how some well-known and honorable gentlemen rave and yell against our party?Fish of the United States, Churchill of England and Poincare of France. Why do they yell and rave? Because the policy of our party is correct and because it is achieving victory after victory...
Cimarron (RKO). Edna Ferber's story of the birth and growth of the State of Oklahoma as reflected in the life of a newspaperman and his family was brilliantly cinematic in print and is vivid and memorable journalism as a cinema. It is a long, full-bodied picture, paced so deftly that although it covers more than half a century of crowded, changing events, it never drags and is rarely jerky. Westward goes Richard Dix with his wife (Irene Dunne) to start a newspaper in the town of Osage, Okla., which has sprung into a population...