Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...silence is eerie. Shell holes seem a natural part of the land. They are everywhere, vivid as footsteps in snow, unmistakable evidence that the Israeli 175-mm. artillery guns have been put to frequent use. According to people who fled the area, there were few civilian deaths. Refugees said they were not bombed as they fled north on the road...
...professional dancer's world, the grounds of experience one doesn't see on a daily basis but which are no less a part of each performance than the rehearsals. There is an unusually perceptive discussion of partnering, for instance-presumably the fruit of Stevens' own experience-a vivid and painful account of an audition for ABT's School, since such trials are unavoidably the stepping-stones of any career in dance, and a dexterous, if occasionally incoherent, whirlwind summary of dance history...
...life in simple, unromanticized prose. It's the story of an English youth in a reform school who purposely loses a cross-country match to be honest; he thought it would be immoral to win the challenge cup merely to please a vain warden--head-master. Sillitoe combines a vivid picture of the routine of lower class life using the loneliness of cross-country running to cultivate his protagonist's spiritual development...
...behind a patient's visions. In one-on-one talk sessions, he listens for telling phrases suggesting a problem that can be "worked." Netherton then tells the patient that he is back in the womb and asks him to describe what he sees and hears. Most respond with vivid scenarios...
...have agreed. When he invited Lowell to the White House in 1965, the poet wired a stern refusal, explaining that he regarded "our present foreign policy with the greatest dismay and distrust." Among old friends or in class at Harvard, where he taught for many years, he was a vivid, eloquent presence. He could hold forth for hours on any subject, his hands brushing back his unkempt white mane. And his poetry revealed the same confiding voice that animated his conversation. The controlled metrics of Lord Weary's Castle and The Mills of the Kavanaughs (1951) show the influence...