Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part hi the book's writing or editing. Their account of Kissinger ranges across his full career in the Nixon Administration, but the freshest and most controversial of their chapters deals with Kissinger's handling of the 1973 war in the Middle East. It is a vivid picture of the Secretary of State at work under fire, juggling policies and priorities...
...logical that Bok and Rosovsky did not want to resurrect the ROTC issue during the 1973-74 academic year because the events of 1969 were too vivid in their memories. CHUL did not want to take action because it also feared the consequences of opening a wound that had just begun to heal...
...contrary, the French are miserable and inhibited in their lovemaking, according to the recently published La Réalité Sexuelle (375 pages; Laffont; $8). Roger-Pol Droit, 25, and Antoine Gallien, 27, have gathered together 22 vivid tape-recorded interviews from people of different ages and backgrounds-but with similar complaints. "I never thought marriage involved sexual relations," confessed a 42-year-old Marseilles secretary. "She'd always say the same thing: 'I'm going to end up pregnant,' " complained her husband. A 36-year-old librarian from Dieppe said that she had accepted...
However, Spivack's poetry can be startlingly vivid, and often very fine lines peer through the intimidating mass of bad ones. Almost every poem has a least one strong image or technical device which works well. Her best poem deals with an unpretentious subject: "A Child's Visit to the Biology Lab." When she describes formaldehyde jars, her use of simple detail works beautifully...
...growth of the new curriculum has coincided with a widespread proliferation of new prison organiza tions. Some have provided a useful self-help structure; others have merely helped to pass the time constructively. A few are responsible for a frightening new element graduating to the streets. Perhaps the most vivid example is the Symbionese Liberation Army which grew twistedly out of the peaceful Black Cultural Association, a five-year-old California prisoners' group...