Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Willy-nilly, Katharine Cornell remains the star type. She is not unversatile, and she is richly gifted: her plastic face, moving voice, vivid gestures, her taste for grandiose and romantic roles, proclaim the "star" personality. When that personality cannot be directly, physically, communicated, as in her life story, it dries up like ink on a blotter...
...dream world which Dali has recorded is as specialized as it is vivid. Once a boy wonder at copying Vermeer and Leonardo, he discovered by self-analysis in Paris that he had a persecution complex (paranoia). His oil technique remains that of a brilliant, baleful Vermeer; his images are obsessive, malignant, and recur in painting after painting: unearthly shores and infinite plains, cliffs glowing with sunset, exhausted human profiles on flesh-blobs like stranded sea cows, attenuated human limbs held up by forked props and peduncles, shiny French telephones, lustrous big black ants. No. 1 criticism of Dali is that...
This melodramatic, smoldering story is the background of Robert Penn Warren's Night Rider. Nobody agrees about the real Tobacco War. But there is no ambiguity in Warren's vivid account of it. Vigorous, lyrical, balanced, it portrays the actors of that little-known ruckus...
...study of a bewildered, frustrated, dreaming, moodily rebellious Bronx family, caught in economic toils like wet fish in a net. Secret of the play's power is that it is neither orthodox realism nor orthodox social drama, but a series of startling angle shots, a kind of vivid grotesque. Its Jewish humor and pathos spring each from the other's loins. Its people are both more and less than three-dimensional: in their behavior they are often cardboard vaudevillians, but in their speech they are illiterate poets, and in their instincts they can be keen as animals...
...example of Melville's romancing is his account, in White-Jacket, of falling overboard on his 14-month voyage home on the frigate United States. Probably one of the most vivid escapes from death in literature, it is the scene which prompted Biographer Lewis Mumford to observe that Melville had now "faced life and death, not as abstractions, but as concrete events. . . ." But Melville never fell overboard in his life. Says Author Anderson: Melville suffered this vicarious experience in an account by a seaman who fell overboard from the frigate United States 18 years before...