Word: vividness
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...just a few days ago, the humbl fare of the Yale dining halls seems shockingly inferior in both quantity and quality. All that we had seen at Annapolis steaming, platers sticked high with chicken halves, soup fuveens full of chocolate chip ice cream, pitchers overflowing with milk all remained vivid in our minds as we retreated back across the Vistula. And by the banks of the Charles our far-famed social franquility went to the winds as we gorged like men half starved on salad pilled high with thousand island dressing, reast beef of noticeable circumference and the ever present...
...human freedom. One never doubts his sincerity and authority. Yet his feelings tend to overshadow some of his work, the flame obscures the value of the poem as a whole. Selections from Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's City (1932) and Public Speech (1936) have this blemish, although they contain, vivid imagry. MacLeish's thought is poignant and direct; but one becomes exhausted with sheer oratory...
...Wagner's four-hour score. Met Stage Director Dino Yannopoulos, 32, working with Designer Charles Elson of the company staff, took Josef Urban's rich old sets apart, reset the best of the gloomy old forms against fields of bright new color. The Met had a vivid new set, "dirt cheap" (about $15,000), and a first-class singing cast topped by Tenor Hans Hopf in his first Met performance of Lohengrin and Soprano Eleanor Steber as Elsa...
...bottom of his Anglo-American tussle? Aiken is clearest and most direct when he tries to explain. He was drawn to England by the particular genius it represented, of which "the facets and fragments . . . sparkled everywhere, on every level." Its common base was "love of life . . . vivid intelligence and gusto"; its expressions ranged from sublime poetry to low ribaldry. Aiken heard it in the dialogue between two dear old English ladies watching lambs at play...
...Donkey, by H. F. M. Prescott. Vivid, fictional chronicle of the 16th century Yorkshire rising against Henry VIII (TIME, Sept...