Word: vividness
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...While the danger of war is vivid, partly because of these crises, I am certain we shall stand by our arms. But if this cold war becomes a war of boredom where the danger is shrewdly concealed, then our resolution may be tested by our willingness to maintain arms. If we fall victim to boredom and risk curtailment of our armed strength, we shall destroy the world's only sturdy barricade against the danger of aggression...
...Harvard men of my time were brought up during a period when veterans of the Civil War, then still to be found in the Faculty, Corporation, and Board of Overseers, would have regarded smoking and chatter in the Transept as sacrilege. Their memories of comrades in the war were vivid and to them the tablet-lined walls were sacred...
...intensity as a whole. The reason is partly structural. In none of his plays has Tennessee Williams made a classic frontal assault on drama. Writing episodically, with tricks of stagecraft and a crutchlike use of offstage music, he has always trusted to a vague sense of poetry and a vivid sense of theater to pull him through. Here the sense of theater is weakened by wordiness and the episodic method is inadequate. The episodes themselves are often skimpy and short-breathed; the minor characters are mostly not even wooden-just beaverboard. The many scenes, instead of serving as a flight...
...pleasure it gave her, and collected human skin, preferably tattooed, for lampshades and bookbindings. Thirty other Germans had been convicted, with her, for Buchenwald's operation. In a routine review of sentences, twelve of her co-defendants had also received sentence reductions. But Use had been the most vivid of the defendants, and she had received the review board's biggest reprieve; Use became the focus of protest. From all sides the U.S. Army was boiled in angry...
...uncle, Robert Manning, took charge of Nathaniel's education and alienated the boy thoroughly. He became evasive and apparently indolent, writing in puns and private language to his sisters, even writing invisibly, in skim milk-a trick that later seemed symbolic of some of his tales. His vivid older sister Elizabeth, who seemed the genius of the family, troubled his imagination. "His early stories," Cantwell observes, "deal often with the rather mortifying masculine experience of encountering women whose sexual experience is greater than...