Word: vividness
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...Office in Berlin. (Said Dieckhoff, the last Nazi Ambassador to the U.S., "Russia opposes Germany's destiny." Said Taylor, "Who doesn't?") They include an interview with Sir Robert Alexander Watson Watt, developer of radar. "Forget the impossible," Watt said. "Few things are impossible." They include a vivid picture of Woodrow Wilson shortly before his death, when young Henry and his father visited the stricken ex-President. "He was not feeble. Often his right arm struck the air in a weird and menacing gesture, then struck again and again as though he would be done with his enemies...
Short, bald, mild Gregor Athalwin Ziemer, 43, favors another war theater. For eleven years he was headmaster of the American School (for U.S. children) in Berlin. His experiences moved him to write Education for Death, a ghastly, vivid account of Nazi education, which became the movie Hitler's Children (TIME, Jan. 18). He joined station WLW shortly before Alcott...
...Cain (The Postman Always Rings Twice, Serenade) through five-alarm fires and the sudden inheritance of large blocks of stock. This is very nearly true. Cain's appeal is partly sheer narrative skill-and partly the fact that he is one of the world's most vivid tellers of dingy stories...
Britons got a vivid, close-up description of Adolf Hitler as he appeared to a recent visitor-nervous as a thwarted cat, biting his fingernails, drinking quantities of sweet champagne. Cedric Salter, Istanbul correspondent of the London Daily Express, wrote that he got the description from an unnamed participant in recent conferences to which the Führer had summoned four satellites (King Boris of Bulgaria, Admiral Nicholas Horthy of Hungary, Marshal Ion Antonescu of Rumania and Croat Puppet Ante Pavelich). The dispatch added...
Ravel: Rapsodie Espagnole (Cleveland Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Columbia; 4 sides). One of Ravel's most vivid pieces brilliantly, if somewhat inelastically, performed...