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...landscapes," Hopkinson explained I'm concerned with the flow of line in a mountain or a tree-the gesture of the thing." To capture it he works even faster than most watercolorists, using fluid and staccato strokes of vibrant color, but unlike more abstract moderns he never lets "the gesture of the thing" obscure the thing itself. "Being a sentimentalist, I want to get across the pleasure of what I see in nature...
...silence seemed vibrant. From the street outside came the occasional voices of pedestrians. A cable car clanged at the corner. An air compressor muttered in the distance. A plane growled overhead. When the half hour was over, newcomers moved into empty seats for the second part of the service. Said one of them: "It was the strangest thing, the quiet when I came in . . . like coming into a cathedral...
...together 250 leading citizens as a reception committee. Down the harbor boats were beflagged and the sirens made their music. Overhead Ruth Nichols . . . roared in her plane scattering roses . . . Along Lower Broadway . . . [the street] was snowbound with ticker tape ... At the City Hall the proceedings were broadcast, and the vibrant voice of the new General, pleading and purposeful, claimed...
...Call You Sweetheart. Author St. John traveled through Titoland with a "change of clothes ... a Boy Scout knife, six cans of DDT, a pencil sharpener, and a considerable quantity of paper." He also took along an interpreter-a Russian-born American girl whose "small, vibrant figure" quivered with eagerness "to answer . . . the riddles of the New Yugoslavia...
...Joyce joined Sir Oswald Mosley, the founder of the British Union of Fascists. (In time he broke away to form his own British National Socialist League.) And so just before the war he fled to Germany, to lend to the treason of ideas his vibrant voice. For this he was hanged...