Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Siberians love the space and clean air, the pleasures of camping in the short but vivid summer, the beauty of the woods in spring and fall. "One freezing night in Irkutsk," reports Correspondent Shaw, "I went with a group of local poets to a poetry reading at an engineering plant. Three hundred young workers, mostly pretty girls, turned up to listen to poetry. When the poets had finished, they insisted that I contribute whatever I could remember. Being cheered for verses remembered from school days by an audience of Siberian factory hands is a memory to cherish...
...nonsense. Almost all the people I know who have read the book were visibly upset by it. None were psychology majors and, therefore, they were all relatively unaccustomed to "intellectualizing" about psychology. While reading Janov's chapter on "The Nature of Feeling," I discovered I was reliving, in rather vivid detail, several childhood experiences I would have thought I'd entirely forgotten. I am not surprised by those who, as a matter of common sense, immediately accept the complete system of Janov's ideas...
Kramer's essay is a radical rehash of populism and the origins of unionized labor. He writes like a good journalist, with a knack for vivid description of those events which did most to shape the consciousness of "the people." He is not making a subtle argument, not digging for causes. He is instead trying to convey an alien character of mind, to make us appreciate that the misery and insecurity of the poor could co-exist with calculating businessmen who sympathized very little...
...should Cas-taneda's sensations be of any more interest than anyone else's? First, because they were apparently conducted within a system?albeit one he did not understand at the time?imposed with priestly and rigorous discipline by his Indian guide. Secondly, because Castaneda kept voluminous and extraordinarily vivid notes. A sample description of the effects of peyote: "In a matter of instants a tunnel formed around me, very low and narrow, hard and strangely cold. It felt to the touch like a wall of sol id tinfoil...! remember having to crawl towards a sort of round point where...
...PRESS FREEDOM issue reaches far into almost every community of American society. College communities are no exception; indeed, attempts to suppress college newspapers by regents and administrators over the past five years provide a frighteningly vivid picture of what a government-controlled or government-pressured press would become. At several major universities--Berkeley, the University of Texas, the University of Florida--and at countless smaller institutions, regents have imposed strict censorship over college newspapers, using financial control of the papers' operations to exact editorial compromises. At Berkeley, the California regents cracked down when The Daily Californian endorsed a political rally...