Word: vividness
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...careful recollection of Harvard sports, 1976-80, bristles with vivid triumphs; staggers under the weight of expansive change; and, most of all, battles the gloomy veil of disappointment. This disappointment, in my mind, overwhelms almost all other memories because it seems to be consuming, steadily, the University's sports program. In effect, this disappointment is a function of the rest of the Harvard athletic program--it follows naturally from the victories and transformations that raise, in both participants and spectators, the hope of progress...
...most vivid of these brief theater pieces is The Conference of the Birds. Questing for a cogent purpose in life, a group of brave birds take wing on a perilous journey to find their true king, the Simorgh. The few survivors find that the quest was a moral lesson-to look for the Simorgh within themselves. The playgoers' reward is the way the actors become birds, with gold, red and white beaks, and swatches of silk plumage...
...fancy, perhaps, but each of Brian's successive drafts was clearer, better punctuated, more vivid and more conscious of his reader. These are the main goals of Graves, who, with a $240,000 grant from the National Institute of Education, teaches writing to elementary school pupils in a style more like that of a working editor than a stern grammarian. The experiment is part of a wave of writing reform that is sweeping through schools, colleges and businesses all over the U.S. In the age of talk shows, tape recorders, telephonitis and declining educational standards, the clearly written word...
...most vivid childhood memory of Architect Luis Barragán is of a water system in a village set in the red hills near the Mexican city of Guadalajara. "Great gutted logs, in the form of troughs," he remembers, "ran on a support system of tree forks, five meters high, above the roofs. This aqueduct crossed over the town, reaching the patios, where there were great stone fountains to receive the water. The channeled logs, covered with moss, dripped water all over town. It gave the village the ambience of a fairy tale...
Ormandy's strength has always been in the late 19th and early 20th century repertory, in the music of such composers as Tchaikovsky, Strauss, Sibelius, Ravel and Debussy. Here he conducts with color and sweep, with glowing sonorities and vivid details. If he has seemed short on profound emotion or penetrating insight, notably into classical composers like Mozart and Beethoven, his musicianship-his pitch, timing and ear for balances and shadings-has always been impeccable. Having inherited a great ensemble from Stokowski, he made it greater. He has hired virtually all of the orchestra's 106 members...