Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus Man's Hope is a new kind of book, at once a literal report of the Loyalist side of the Civil War and a novel tracing the fates of some 20 leading characters who fight in it. It combines vivid journalistic observation with extraordinary imaginative flights, consequently stands out, not only as a novel but as the best piece of reporting that has come out of the Spanish Civil War. And as such it illustrates Malraux's theory of fiction-that the real news of the modern world can be better told in novels than in newspapers...
Moreover, the author is clever enough to leave out the mass of facts that burden down the usual narrative, and by her subjective approach produces a series of vivid sketches. The first one, concerning her stay at one of the Cape Verde Islands where the wind blew forever and time meant nothing, is an artistic triumph, and at times comes very close to being poetry. it is beautiful prose, natural, rhythmic, and expressive...
...month. The disarming candor of Mrs. Lindbergh's writing is probably the biggest reason for its popularity, since she combines technical discussions of flight with humdrum, housewifely confessions of her fears while flying. Listen! The Wind has the same engaging tone as North to the Orient, includes some vivid recollections of tense hours over the Atlantic which give a better picture of transoceanic flying than any account...
...Vivid, Big Blow is also crude. Its startling picture is half-spoiled by a stale plot. Its genuine drama of the hurricane is tarnished by the regulation melodrama of the hack. For its effectiveness. Big Blow can thank its subject, not its playwright...
Simplicity marks the newsreel, which is largely a collection of shots from all parts of the distressed areas of the seaboard. There is no "clever" photography or editorialized comment, yet these advance pictures give a vivid portrayal of last week's disaster...