Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rounds chronicled by Darwin will not come back but in Mostly Golf we at least get a vivid if all too fleeting glimpse of the pageantry and splendor that belonged to the likes of James Braid, Bobby Jones, the olive-skinned Gene Sarazen with his Cheshire Cat grin, and "the Haig" with his oriental eyelids and brilliantined hair bestriding the fairways of Muirfield. For as the Scotch have been wont to say since those colorful days of James II: they were all "grand gowfers a', nane better...
Died. Edgar Ansel Mowrer, 84, foreign correspondent and syndicated columnist for the Chicago Daily News from 1914 to 1969; on the Portuguese island of Madeira. As Berlin bureau chief in the '30s, Mowrer received a Pulitzer Prize for his vivid reporting on Hitler's rise, was expelled from Germany and enraged Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, who said he would expend an army division to capture Mowrer. As a columnist, Mowrer became increasingly conservative and looked on peaceful coexistence with Communism as "the opium of the West...
...team's skills in language arts, and just as effective. Slowly one passes from shock to sympathy and laughter. One appreciates as well Director Hill's solid realization of the minor-league ambience?plasticized motels and bars, dreary arenas, the grubby team bus?and the brisk, vivid sketches of recognizable jock types with which he and Screenwriter Dowd* have peopled the Chiefs. Unquestionably, the film makers are at tempting a valid moral statement. Their concern is not merely with the decline of hockey from artful sport into blood spectacle, but also with the general tendency of pop cultural enterprise...
Among many blacks, Roots has kindled an intense desire to search out their genealogies. Actually, American blacks' interest in their African heritage began years ago; among the most vivid manifestations were the dashikis and African names that became popular in the 1960s. Hence Roots and the reaction to it are in a sense as much effect as cause...
...Sand's radicalism and her later conservatism are lost in Barry's lengthy and confusing historical accounts, boring for a reader familiar with the history and unenlightening for the uninformed. The political accounts lack coherence and rely too heavily on loosely connected fragments from Sand's journals. Unlike the vivid portrayals of the literary figures, Sand's political associates are names without personalities...