Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...time and the near approach of June, 1917, will the present Freshman class realize the significance of their dinner to be held tonight. By that time the event will loom up as a unique and irreplaceable occasion. The time necessary for a feeling of class unity to become vivid has not yet elapsed and sheer lack of stimulus may well account for many men neglecting the dinner. But the upper classes know that the Freshman Dinner is one of the last things they would omit from the varied experiences of their college career...
...Walcott gives us a good old-fashioned "Gothic" tale, with secret door, mysterious staircase, damp, dark passage, etc., etc., even to the coincidence which brings the final disaster just at the right moment to catch the characters in the story. Mr. Jackson's "Point of View" is a short, vivid, and fairly amusing sketch of Western life. "Paraffine Percy," by Mr. Douglas, is the one piece of real distinction in the number. Even this would be better--nonsense though it is--if the ending were stronger. The laws of climax apply just as much to nonsense as to any other...
...Seldes appears here uttering. I think, his third lamentation over the deplorable condition of American fiction. In spite of his iteration, the reviewer is not convinced that American novels are as bad as Mr. Seldes believes, nor is he much enlightened by such a paradox as this: "They offer vividness, interest, lightness of touch, superficial interest; What perverse tenth muse broods over them, then, that they result only in stupidity, dullness, vanity, and vexation of spirit?" Can a vivid and interesting book be at the same time stupid and dull? Yet the article shows the author an acute observer...
...Stadium on November 22. Another will show the finish of the intercollegiate cross-country race at New York on the same day and should please particular people. The illustrated songs will be handled by various members of the University Glee Club, and the accompanying slides will give a vivid picture of every word sung. Nothing will be concealed and every man is expected to face the songs as he hears them...
...model smirks on the cover; but the contents of the excellent November number show here and there ravages of the bacilli that beset the ten-cent magazines, Mr. Petersen, for instance, has caught the--Red Blood Craze. His cattleship story called "Murph"--well-constructed and boldly written and vivid as it unquestionably is--is too full of perspiration and profanity and filth. Mr. Petersen's leading character has nothing distinctive about him, excepting an odor like a New England barnyard after an April shower." This sentence is more suited to a report of the Sewer Commission than to a work...