Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...real stars were the trial attorneys, some decked out in swallow-tailed coats, others with flowing, silver hair, warming up the court with folksy anecdotes and at the same time cannily analyzing their juries. As a young man, Charlie Kirbo thrilled to this important courtroom theater. He remembers the vivid silence of the room, broken only by an occasional cough or a crying baby...
...played with great sensitivity by Mike Kellin and Michael Egan, sit on a bench facing Lake Michigan and talk like lobotomized Talmudic scholars about the habits of ducks and other subjects of which they know virtually nothing yet speculate about with endless comic invention. What emerges is a vivid sense of their friendship, the fear of solitude, the inexorable toll of expiring lives...
...Nothing to be heard from morning to night but 'Doctor! Doctor! Doctor!' " That was Dr. Lewis Beebe's vivid recollection of Brigadier General Benedict Arnold's expeditionary forces retreating from Quebec Province last month. As firsthand accounts of the debacle are gathered, it becomes increasingly clear that the expedition's most dangerous enemy was not gunfire but disease. Says Congressional Delegate John Adams of Massachusetts: "The small pox is ten times more terrible than Britons, Canadians and Indians together. This was the cause of our precipitate retreat from Quebec, this the cause of our disgraces...
Nighttime Sounds. The Prime Minister, announcing the state of emergency, also gave a vivid example of the kind of violence he intended to stop. On the night of May 19, Manley recalled, in what has become known as the "Orange Street Massacre," a gang seeking vengeance for the stabbing of one of its members set fire to a tenement house. With gunfire the gang held firemen at bay and the occupants inside the burning building. Eight children and three adults died in the fire...
...question what I'm doing and why I'm doing it more. I have a greater perception of government and society, and I learned about the interrelationship between government and society. The period leaves you with a framework with which to judge government, as well as a lingering and vivid historical example of how policy is made and skepticism of what government officials say," Goldsmith said...