Word: compress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From all the mountainous massing of material, it was Birnbaum's job to sort out and compress, to find anecdotes or facts that in a brief compass would suggest the complexity of the city and the character of his subject. And so, when this week he wrote his 22nd cover story, the story for the first time became a fully shaped article. He was not merely changing, reordering or touching up someone else's version. And as Researcher Funger double-checked his facts and figures before publication, Chicago Bureau Chief Gart was in New York helping with...
...more time to learn the same thing, and teaching may get worse. The dull hate learning more than ever, and the bright suffer because standards fall. In the end, this simply costs more money, requires more teachers, and produces fewer truly educated people. Machlup's idea is to compress the entire span of education so that students finish high school by the age of 15, and college by 18. Not only would this save $12 billion a year, he says, but it would sharply improve U.S. education...
...show because of their crude, rough-woven finish of thick wool sometimes interlaced with straw. Also highly praised was the Japanese technique of Tsuzure-Nishiki demonstrated by Hirozo Murata's silk and gold Hunting, a scene of horsemen with bows and arrows. In Tsuzure-Nishiki tradition, Japanese weavers compress the weft as it is woven into tapestry, using their fingernails cut like saw teeth...
...Japanese barons. Even in Shakespeare's plot, Kurosawa has condensed detail, juggled scenes, chucked the sentimental excrescences-among them, thank heaven, the soap-operatic murder of poor little Baby Macduff. Kurosawa's intention is plainly to hack off the Gothic foliage of Shakespeare's fancy and compress his tale into that traditional form of Japanese theater known as noh. As in those vast dance-dramas of destiny, Kurosawa's actors run to the grand mythological gesture, speak in noble recitative, and are accompanied by a queer, irrelevant commentary of abstruse instruments that...
...even better known than many of his facts, what Gunther does with unsurpassed skill is to compress and illuminate the conditions, conflicts and characters of nations that he has covered for more years than any other U.S. newsman left on the beat. Pundits may fault his tightly packed book as superficial. Most other readers will probably agree with Critic Harold Nicolson's verdict on the first Inside: "It's only superficial on the surface...