Word: vividness
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...another never got beyond one line, i.e., "Dr. Pell is positive that his name was Holybushe." Aubrey's Lives have been the historian's bounty and bane: his research was fascinating, but often based on mere hearsay. Whatever his shortcomings, no other biographer has ever written more vivid, true-to-life descriptions of Aubrey's lusty century...
...Friendly advance memo explained: "We want to portray the face of war and the faces of the men now fighting it ... The best picture we could get would be a single G.I. hacking away at a single foxhole in the ice of a Korea winter . . ." Murrow brought back the vivid sight and sound of a marine's shovel rasping futilely at the earth. Other memorable See It Now moments for eye and ear: a Buchenwald tattoo on the arm of an Israeli jet pilot; a "rehabilitated" Mau Mau warrior singing Onward, Christian Soldiers; the ding of a bullet taken...
...made Murrow one of radio's legends. In New York, CBS staffers formed a Murrow-Ain't-God Club so they could view him with proper detachment. (When Murrow got wind of it, he demanded charter membership.) His vivid picture of Londoners under fire stirred the heart of the U.S., stands as one of the war's memorable reporting jobs...
...that sent 15th century Christians into England's streets to perform the classic morality play Everyman (in which God dispatches Death to demand an immediate "rekenynge" from the happy-go-luckless hero): to reach those who will not come to church and present Christianity to them in simple, vivid terms. Says Father Oswald: "You see, the spoken word is not good enough nowadays. There is no good giving them beautiful words and lovely thoughts; the people are used to the cinema and TV. We must give them something they...
...moments are not those of the novelist but of the poet. The evocation of Alexandria in singing, interpolated paragraphs has more reality than the delineation of the principal characters. When the book is finished the people fade, but the riddles of existence and the cruelties of love remain as vivid images. And Alexandria remains as well, with its dusttormented streets, its lemony sunlight, where even the sulky young "struggle for breath and in every summer kiss they can detect the taste of quicklime...