Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SINCE Doris Kearns taught Government 154, "The American Presidency" have there been so many LBJ anecdotes presented in one place at one time as in her treatise Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. We get the complete story about Johnson's electric toothbrush fetish. There is the vivid description of LBJ's discussion with an embarrassed Kennedy-liberal while the president sat on the toilet. And, she includes an awesome account of the haggard man who tiptoed down to the situation room of the White House at 3 a.m. to see how his war was progressing. It's all interesting...
...musings of Jeffrey Walker about the Orestiaen legend and American tyrants in "After-Dinner Reading." There are reactions to Harvard, to lovers, to grandmothers, to the question "what's hapnin." There are two tightly-constructed and vivid short stories, as well as an eloquent review of James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk. There is even a short play about the emotions preceding a slave revolt in Virginia in 1800, the prologue of which affirms passionately, emphatically "freedom's all I'll ever need...
...country was created by those people from a decaying Europe who sustained what he calls "vivid pockets of conscience." They established an ethical and moral government, he says, but not a government to be run by a monarch or a church. "Every aspect of our democracy comes from these vestigial remnants of that faith," the dean insists. Up until recently, as he sees things, we could take politicians of common stripe and at the moment of inaugural turn them into leaders who could justly be trusted with this moral heritage...
...victims of complacent ignorance. They may complain that television's brief glimpses of public figures emphasize personality over substance, which is true; yet, particularly in moments of stress, character does come through onscreen. By simply reading about Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan or John Connally, would anyone have the vivid sense of these men that so many Americans now have? This is what television news does best. The question is whether it should try to do more: whether a medium that must first satisfy the restless eye is best suited to serving the reasoning mind. Can the camera-that-talks...
...about time the masses see in such vivid detail the horrors of war. Don't sway from your conviction that you should show us what is actually happening in this world, even if in the process it turns some of our stomachs...