Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...threat to the nation's press. (Last week, in a little-noticed token of liberalization, the government reversed a decision that would have excluded black and Indian students from the mostly white Natal medical school.) But blacks and their white supporters would still have the memory of a vivid lesson-that the government has the legal authority to crush dissent any time it pleases...
...Weak, vain, pushing, curious, garrulous" - as Macaulay described him-Boswell nevertheless produced the most vivid and exhaustive biographical portrait in literature. Modern biographers have before them a daunting monument, the quotable Johnson of old age, living in picturesque squalor, holding forth on any topic. He was "the greatest talker in the history of the English language," Bate claims. And how simple it would have been just to elaborate on that legend: the proud writer dining behind a screen because he was ashamed of his tattered clothes; the compulsive walker in the streets of London who had to touch each lamppost...
Typically, Margaret Drabble's heroines have been wry, intelligent women pitting their vivid psyches against their drab or otherwise unsatisfying outer lives. Her eighth novel alters this formula. Characters, female and male, no longer have the luxury of pursuing self-fulfillment or fretting about personal unhappiness. They are too preoccupied with current events -with the drama of England's economic decline, featuring a cast of millions of involuntary bit players...
...final weeks of its immensely successful engagement at the Next Move Theatre in Boston, Emma is an entertaining mix of documentary and drama, creating a vivid picture of the outlook and actions of America's turn of the century Anarchist movement and the colorful "Red" Emma Goldman...
Robert Barltrop-an ex-boxer and historian of the British Socialist Party -has written a vivid summary of London's early years. But he worries continually about whether his man was a good Marxist or not. Meaning: Is Martin Eden a crude but effective indictment of the bourgeoisie, or just a disguised autobiography whose motive was spite...