Word: vividness
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...John Fischer, associate editor of Harper's magazine, and member of an UNRRA mission which traveled in the U.S.S.R. with fewer restrictions than any foreign group has had in years. Concluding a series of articles on his trip in the current Harper's, Editor Fischer gives a vivid account of the men he found there. Excerpts...
Youthful, maidenly Chantal lives in a French chateau whose Second Empire shrubberies and wide, tawny avenues are described by Bernanos with vivid feeling. With her live her timid, pedantic father (who has written volumes of history but cannot stir a step without the counsel of his psychiatrist) and her psychotic grandmother (who still clutches to her bosom the keys of storage cupboards that have long ceased to exist). Of such as them, Chantal says simply: "What can God find to say to those who, of their own free will, of their own weight incline toward sadness and turn instinctively toward...
...Jacobean stone, lichenous and somnolent in great gardens beside the fleet little River Skell. The 814-year-old abbey (desecrated by order of Henry VIII) is England's noblest monastic ruin. Yet it was not its ruinous beauty that most moved Elwes, but his sudden realization of the vivid religious life which once had flourished there. "Beauty," says he, "ought to live. Ruins, as ruins, always make me want to vomit. It seemed to me then that the stones of Fountains were bleeding...
With limpid, vivid clarity, Jeans explained the mysteries. He did not stop work as a scientist, but gradually his scientific work took second place. He lectured, played the lion, his comings & goings across the Atlantic became almost public events...
...pulps. The comics, full of rocket men and bosomy girls, were the biggest surprise of all; British children's comics are mainly animal or flower stories. London street hawkers took in up to ?15 a day. Customers paid up to 25. 6d. (50?) for such gems as Vivid Confessions and How to Write Intimate Love Letters. Outraged British publishers couldn't prove it, but they felt sure that some of this Canadian flood came from U.S. firms anxious to dump their recent heavy returns...