Word: vividness
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...freshman year well enough to know that it was more than the permutation of cliches offered in "The Yard." Are Yearbook editors too aged to recall, for example, the exhilirating social liquidity of those first weeks in the Yard, and then the gelling of circles of friends? A vivid picture of even one part of the freshman year would give "The Yard" some life...
What's left? Well, there's the Yale track meet, for two years a thrilling event which has been decided by the final relay. A vivid imagination might even be able to foresee a close meet starting at 1 p.m. Saturday...
...takes an even more vivid imagination to envision a close race on the Charles, where the Crimson faces Penn and Navy in the Adams Cup races on Saturday afternoon. Harvard's heavyweight crew is good, but it probably isn't in a class with Navy, a favorite to represent the U.S. in the Olympics...
...clever bit of behind-the-scenes journalism, not a blow for human rights, and his uniquely personal experience does little but reaffirm the existence of bigotry. Magnified on the screen, it suggests unintentionally that the public and private indignities suffered by the black man appear somehow more cogent, vivid and unjust when a white man has to bear them...
Four centuries later, moderns who celebrate the Bard's birthday often miss the vivid life that Shakespeare gave to the law in hundreds of legal puns, parodies and allusions. He never studied for the bar, but in that lavishly litigious era he could hardly escape learning about it. Elizabethans thronged their court rooms with far more acuity than to day's viewers of TV's Defenders; Shakespeare's father alone was involved in more than 50 lawsuits. If history's most absorbent author needed high legal drama, he had only to versify the royal squabbles...