Word: vividness
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...Price of Despair. From Algiers came a vivid indictment of Washington's policy of limited, insufficient recognition (all hands blamed President Roosevelt more than Prime Minister Churchill). Cabled New York Timesman Harold Callender, who used to defend the State Department's attitude toward De Gaulle...
This is William Walton, our paratroop expert and correspondent on special assignment to cover the war in the air. He crossed to England on the Coast Guard Cutter Spencer, and you may remember his vivid story of how the Spencer Davey Jonesed a U-boat in an eight-hour battle...
...battle of War Bonnet Gorge, for which Cody was given the Congressional Medal of Honor, is the most notable sequence: Filmed on the scene of the original battle, it is made vivid and real by the brilliance of technicolor which gives breath-taking color to the outdoor scenes. Charging from either end of a gorge, the soldiers and Indians meet in the shallow water of the stream bed. The battle which ensues is terrific in its ferocity. So much water is splashed that the lens of the camera gets wet--it really does--you can see the drops running down...
...with details piled on in careless abundance, and with sudden spirited scenes of violence lighting up in dividual characters with a brief intense flash. Often the situations are operatic, with the posturings and awkwardnesses of opera. But at moments they give way to a clarity of scene and character vivid as one of the Indian villages Captain Jack's paleface braves come upon suddenly in the woods. The total effect is epic and dis orderly. But so was the frontier...
...informative as an encyclopedia. As a report of military intelligence, with its microscopic account of the war against Conselheiro, it makes U.S. studies of battles in the Civil War seem almost superficial. Through its long expositions of climate, plant life, race, the social character of the backlands, extraordinarily vivid scenes flash at the reader. Rebellion in the Backlands did what Euclides da Cunha wanted it to do. It saved the story of Conselheiro from being buried with his corpse, chastened Brazilian militarists, and helped unify Brazil. But it queered its author with the army, and on Aug. 15, 1909, aged...