Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eddison has vivid memories of the struggle of the Rhodesian guerrilla forces. They fought their first battle with the regime in 1966, and in the next three years there was widespread fighting across northern Rhodesia. After a several-year lag in the fighting, the liberation troops resumed the offensive, directing their efforts primarily against white farmers and forcing many of them to abandon their farms and move to the cities...
...shoulder may be fleeting, the brush across the cheek gone sooner than it is felt, but the momentary effect is unmistakable: an unwilling suspension of belief in the rational. An old friend suddenly remembered, and as suddenly the telephone rings and the friend is on the line. A vivid dream that becomes the morning reality. The sense of bumping into one's self around a corner of time, of having done and said just this, in this place, once before in precisely this fashion. A stab of anguish for a distant loved one, and next day, the telegram...
...cardinal's firing was accomplished obliquely. The Pope simply announced that the see of Esztergom was vacant and sent a conciliatory letter to Mindszenty, acknowledging "the crown of thorns that has been placed on your head." The Pope declared that "the memory, both vivid and painful, is deeply etched in our mind, of when you underwent a trial and conviction . . . that drew the attention of the whole world...
Like Ehninger, most of the other male characters in the book are pallid. It is the women who are vivid and demonstrate by far the sharpest appetites. Beeky's wife, for example, is a ribald triple divorcee, an exploded sex bomb 15 years older than her husband. A menopausal female member of the firm demonstrates maternal ambitions by deviously trying to get a young lawyer to marry her daughter. Another woman solicitor, young and brilliant, undergoes great turmoil when she leaves Shepard, Putney, etc., where her husband is also a lawyer, in order to head for Washington...
That's all off the point. My last vivid memory of Charlie Christmas is an assembly which was held in his honor at the end of my senior year. The entire school attended and the bleachers were filled to capacity. Dr. Patterson, the principal, walked out on to the stage. He called Charlie to come stand beside him. So gawking, hillybilly-ish 6 ft. 5 in. Charlie moseyed down there. Dr. Patterson started talking about what an inspiration Charlie had been since his arrival at Mountain Brook--not only as an athlete but as a person. Poor, humble Charlie didn...