Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Theodore Marburg, former ambassador to Belgium, lectured last evening on the logic and machinery of an international league. "In advocating peace," said Mr. Marburg, "we must emphasize the inevitable injustices which are the results of war." Belgium is a vivid example of this, but by no means the only one. There are private injustices as well as public...
After all, the feeling between the two colleges is summed up in the Yale man's idea of a Harvard man, and vice-versa; and this idea is built up by small but vivid impressions like the above, together with the vaguer general knowledge which each has of the workings of the other institution. These sharper impressions have come chiefly, hitherto, from athletic events; and I cannot too strongly emphasize the stake which every man in college has in keeping those events (as well as handling questions of eligibility, etc.) high and dry above all criticism. But there are many...
...Common Clay" is a problem play with an involved plot which is worked out in a vivid and forceful manner...
...Tormo the Trout" by Mr. Weston is a daintily worded and slightly mystie sketch of the sort that is pleasant to read but which leaves no particular impression on the reader's mind. Mr. McCormick's vivid study based on a shipwreck makes a definite impression. So little emphasis is laid on the first phase of the story, however, that the plot does not receive the full benefit of the sharp contrast as the character develops...
...introduction just a word to remind readers of the difficulty of the reviewer's task nowadays. He must sit down, bent on honest criticism, which is the purpose of a review, and see continually flitting before him the vivid phantom of "precocity mated with the unreserve of a female infant." Deliver us from its clutches, for we know not what...