Word: vividness
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...George von Hilsheimer, 39, a self-styled minister in the Free Religious Association, is fascinated by psychiatry. Though he has no degrees in the subject, he likes to talk about such "therapies" as electrosleep, vivid confrontation, megavitamins and hypode-sensitization. What is noteworthy about Von Hilsheimer, however, is that he has been able to try out these techniques, and others as well, during his nine years as superintendent of the Green Valley School for emotionally disturbed and delinquent children in Orange City...
...insidious this character is. Frankly, James wouldn't have stood for him; the sexual undertones are too explicit. No, James leaves those doors through which two people walk to the imagination of the reader. He gives you the gossip, and from there, it depends on how perverse or vivid your imagination is. Bogdanovich's is depraved: he makes Winterbourne's feeble mobility into a hypocritical desire for Daisy...
...this scene, as elsewhere in the play, the intensity does not arise from an inattention to the ordinary details of our lives. It comes because we are forced to witness the mediocrity of our lives, even as we remember with Willy the dreams of better times--dreams so vivid we can almost taste them. And because we shall never cease to hate those things in life which compel a compromise, we shall never learn to make it gracefully, and shall never cease to loathe ourselves for making...
...amounts of money involved. Compared with the abuses of power already documented in the Watergate affair, for example, the allegation that Rebozo spent $4,562.38 in leftover campaign funds for earrings for Pat Nixon would not ordinarily have been of much consequence. But it was perceived as a vivid symbol, calling immediately to mind a much younger Richard Nixon who bragged on television that his wife wore only a "respectable Republican cloth coat." Strategically, the allegation was also important to investigators because it helped them trace the means by which much of Nixon's campaign funds had apparently been...
...programs-one on each network-dealing with touchy subjects of dissidence. The networks showed what they had received, including the dramatic moment when the picture went black. "It was better journalism than anything we could have sent out," said NBC's John Chancellor. "There was never a more vivid demonstration of the differences between the two systems...