Word: vividness
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...Hungarian-born inventor of color television, unveiled equipment developed since V-J day. For an hour, an ingenious new receiving set was tuned in on a filmed fashion show and football game, a Disney color short. The broadcast was over ultra-high frequency, radar wave lengths. The reception, as vivid as a Van Gogh painting, made black-&-white television look antiquated. Boasted CBS: "the insurmountable obstacles" have been hurdled; in a year, if the demand is great enough, color television can be in the U.S. home...
...quite as simple as King makes it out. He has a vivid and rangy talent for sensing, not what his people want, but what they themselves really know they should have. He is, in a sense, a sort of national conscience that bends, persists and never breaks: "I try to make up my mind what is the right thing to do, and feel confident that the people will think it is right...
...mere pieces a few of them are vivid, even explosive. But with its dozen scenes and three dozen characters, Strange Fruit is jumpy, congested, disordered. As theater, it has far too little excitement; as drama, far too little thrust...
...your treasurer securities with a marketable value of $1,500,000 ... to enable Harvard to build the undergraduate library that you tell me [it] needs. My own gratitude to Harvard is unbounded, and the sense of exhilaration and stimulus that the college gave my undergraduate years is as vivid today as it was a half-century...
...letter of presentation, Lamont described "the sense of exhilaration and stimulus that the College gave to my undergraduate years," and claimed it "as vivid today as it was a half century ago." Accepting the girt, President Conant brought out Lamont's previous generosity, and described the banker as "a wise and far-seeing donor...