Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...haggard face gave vivid evidence that he had been harshly treated. But even then, a shocked world could hardly imagine what had been done to make so proud and stubborn a man as József Cardinal Mindszenty, Primate of Hungary, stand in the dock and drone out a confession to patently false charges of treason and conspiracy. Only when he published his Memoirs late last year did he provide a full account of how Communist police had broken his spirit. For five weeks he was harangued, stripped naked, kept forcibly awake, drugged and thrashed endlessly with a rubber truncheon...
...there were few signs of stress. He made for himself a host of enemies, not the least of whom was the Crimson, which for years ran a picture of him holding a bull-horn and standing outside University Hall. Many students were more direct in their attacks. I remember vivid, scary accounts of harrassments and building occupation...
...exhibit--not even one that is accompanied by the vivid recollections of those who knew the subject best--can bring a man back to life. But the exhibit at the Law School does succeed in giving a clear impression of what Holmes must have been like. Each item has been carefully selected, and the show progresses in a thoroughly logical fashion. This exhibit leaves you with a definite feeling for Holmes' depth of character, his awesome accomplishments, and his profound wisdom...
...lived and been killed, Giminez-Jimeno's testimony was irrefutable in its essence. The defense could not deny that Edelin had deliberately caused the death of what the jurors saw in that photograph. And it may be that the defense never succeeded in removing from their minds that first, vivid picture of Edelin as a ruthless, cold-blooded abortionist, standing motionless over a dying child...
Aside from his portrait of the development of Agee's ideas, Fitzgerald also presents some of the most vivid of Agee's letters about his work and the dissolution of his first and second marriages. There is a desperate air about these letters, as if Agee were always living from one creative moment to the next, waiting for the necessary inspiration, but never working toward it. And his relationships seem to be so incomplete, so tied to his writing, that they have the same tormented reliance on inspiration: selflessness was in him but it did not come easily...