Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about them in the future. For now, it can be said that this is a bella voce album of the first order. Devotees of the Leontyne Price-Placido Domingo set, or Price-Richard Tucker, or especially the old Zinka Milanov-Jussi Björling classic-all much more dramatically vivid-may safely keep them on the shelf, however...
Jerusalem. Israelis have vivid memories of the 1948-67 Jordanian rule, when the city was divided. Jews were illegally denied access to the ancient Temple's Western Wall and the Jewish quarter of the Old City was looted and damaged. Muslims answer that the Old City is, and traditionally has been, mainly Arab in population and that they should have it back...
...vivid moments, it took on the aura of a political trial...
There were gaping contradictions in the police testimony. Major Harold Snyman, head of the five-man interrogating team, testified that Biko, when shown several statements of "confession" written by friends, had "jumped up like a man possessed, grabbed a chair and threw it at me." Snyman then gave a vivid demonstration of how Biko had hit his head during the outburst-only to admit later that he had not seen the final incident himself. In subsequent testimony, two witnesses offered sharply varying accounts of the same interview. Furthermore, it was disclosed that the "confessions" Snyman referred to were actually dated...
Social life picked up in her teen-age years. She plunges into vivid accounts of coconut shies and garden parties, the technique of hat painting and cheating on one's dance card. In the myriad detail of the book is an irresistible ingenuousness. When she achieved her first success as a thriller writer, she bought a car. "I will confess," she says, "that of the two things that have excited me most in my life the first was my grey bottle-nosed Morris Cowley. The second was dining with the Queen about forty years later." There follows a paragraph...