Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second TIME cover artist, Boris Chaliapin, who fled the Soviet Union in 1925, sat in the gallery last week when Khrushchev addressed the U.N. General Assembly in Manhattan, sketched swift, vivid impressions of his own of the Soviet Premier in action...
...Siege at Peking, by Peter Fleming. A vivid re-creation of the Boxer Rebellion, when a thin, red line of 400 defended the foreign compounds at Peking from 25,000 screaming besiegers for 55 days...
...writing. In a scene of almost comic Victorian romanticism, complete with smelling salts and kneeling suitor, Anna Arild rejects Serezha, and the young writer is free to pursue the hard mastery of his craft. Boris Pasternak himself did not attain that mastery until he wrote Doctor Zhivago. Despite its vivid imagery, lyricism and passion for the individual. The Last Summer is an apprentice work...
...name. After police ruled only that Owner Matthews must have an entertainment license for the Gas House, the townspeople shuddered, got their Venice Civic Union to fight the licensing. The beatniks sent for the Civil Liberties Union, and after generously beautifying Venice's alleys by painting vivid abstractions on garbage cans, got ready for battle...
More Than Meets the Eye, by Carl Mydans. A vivid written account (no pictures) by a crack photographer of nearly a quarter-century spent covering the world's battlefronts...