Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your correspondent gives a vivid impression of a convention "floundering" along, and then being thrown in its last hour into a "frenzy of plans" through a "bystander," Mr. L. H. Schultz, who "stood just about all the aimless dreaming he could stand." I dislike to spoil a dramatic story, but perhaps the facts will improve...
Americans and Britons, going home from Teheran, took with them an unforgettable portrait of an unforgettable figure: Joseph Stalin. Never before had he been viewed by so many of his allies; never before had he loomed so sharply. Those who had seen him conveyed a vivid impression to the world...
...something new was to make Mrs. Miniver and Random Harvest two of the five greatest screen hits ever manufactured. It was to explain every success that the young actress, whose name was Greer Garson, has had since. It was slowly to crystallize and congeal Miss Garson's vivid, rangy talent for acting, and to lift it to an eminence comparable to that of St. Simeon Stylites: high, conspicuous, and not without grandeur, but without much room to turn around in. In fact, it was to doom and royally imprison Cinemactress Garson, very possibly for the rest of a career...
...first sentence is in the vivid pidgin of a West African tribesman, means "The sun is due for a total eclipse." The second is officialese for "We disagree...
Bizet's pulsing score remains intact-unswung, unsyncopated, unsentimentalized. (The recitatif has been ripped out, but Bizet did not write it: Carmen was originally a musical drama, not grand opera). Carmen's vivid plot remains unchanged. So does the inner nature of its people. But the scene of Carmen Jones is a U.S. Southern town where hip-swaying, head-tossing Carmen Jones works in a parachute factory. The Don José who wins her, loves her, loses her and kills her is a harassed M.P. corporal named Joe. The Micaela who loves and loses him is country-bred...