Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inhabited. Auchincloss also occasionally mires himself in melodramatic ramblings that he evidently perceives as powerful prose ("Orgasm with David was like the raising of a communion cup before an altar that knew no sacrament but love.") but these indulgent tirades are only sporadic; Auchincloss is generally a smooth and vivid writer...
Luscomb regales a visitor with a wealth of anecdotes and political prophesying about people and places far away in space and time yet, as she speaks, it is all vivid. Luscomb recalls the struggles of the early women's movement with compassion and sometimes with humor. There was, for example, a time in the summer of 1909 when Luscomb was stumping for the suffrage and spoke at a small town near Haverell, Mass. It was an evening meeting in a town hall and, after the speaker had finished, a basket filled with yellow "Votes for Women" buttons was passed around...
Some Arab complaints against the occupation are obviously exaggerated. The Israelis, for instance, have provided far more classrooms and hospital facilities than the Arabs will admit. Some of the charges-notably, the extent of torture carried out under interrogation in Israeli prisons-cannot be proved. Individual Arabs have given vivid testimony of maltreatment. "I can assure you we don't have torture," answers Brigadier General David Hagoel, the West Bank military governor. "I am against torture completely." Hagoel admitted to TIME Correspondent Don Neff that occupation forces sometimes surreptitiously bury bodies of Palestinian terrorists. "Funerals can cause great demonstrations...
...campaign of anti-Castro terrorism today. That campaign has included a number of recent bombings, both in and out of the U.S., and a bomb explosion on an Air Cubana flight last October that killed 73 people. In telling the story of this enterprise, the CBS program offers several vivid vignettes...
...career at Harvard and his two marriages, both of which cracked up. It was during the Cuban missile crisis that Mee decided to leave home: "If I was to die, I told myself, I did not wish to die with my first wife." He loved the time for its vivid gaiety: "I thought the '60s were what life was." The decade eventually took on sinister aspects. Mee had his misadventures with alcohol and speed; he ruefully describes his visit to a filthy rural California commune that had even contrived to have its own black slum: "a grotesque parody...