Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...future self is quickly extinguished by the thought of long sleepless nights typing 20-page papers on such topics as the role of date-growing in the fall of Nebuchadnezzar the Second. Outside in the Square, there is a bit of a September chill in the air, but the vivid prospect of endless reading lists and embattled nights in the library is such as to even preclude rhapsodizing on the joys of the New England autum. The stentorian monotone of a spectacles professor rings in your ears, and to escape its ghastly sound you head for the nearest refuge...
...poet, he extolls the virtues of the northwest wind and wonders how city dwellers can live without "knowing which way the wind blows, which way the rain falls, how the sea surges, the land lives and the forests die." There are no environmental or political polemics here, just a vivid and often lyrical journey through one man's Maine...
...addition to being a great poet, Robert Frost was the most dazzling performer on the American literary stage since Mark Twain. The impersonation of a mischievous, lovable old sugar maple of a man that he gave while lecturing during the last three decades of his life is still vivid to anyone who came near a college auditorium during that period...
...with all the wit and energy he lacks. With the tough elegance and self-assurance of a top whore in a classy joint, she adds a crucial dimension of sensuality and realism. Salome's bawdy repartees offer Wertmuller just the link she needs to trigger off comic scenes. Her vivid style is distinctly reminiscent of Fellini (with whom she worked on "8 1/2"), especially in portraying the banter and gossip of twenty girls gorging themselves at dinner...
Jaromil indeed becomes a poet. He tries to spy on the maid as she takes her bath, and fails, but produces a vivid poem about his "aquatic love." The genius of lyric poetry, Kundera observes, "is the genius of inexperience ... We can scoff at the poet's lack of maturity, but there is something amazing about him too. His words sparkle with droplets that come from the heart, and that gives his verse the luster of beauty. These magic dewdrops need not be stimulated by real life events. On the contrary, we suspect that the poet sometimes squeezes...