Word: compressional
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Compression is evident in the characters, too. Kurosawa's Macbeth is no reflective and susceptible villain, "too full o' the milk of human kindness." He is a sweat-simple soldier, as physical as his horse, and he is played with tremendous thrust and mien by Toshiro Mifune (the...
Robert Klein's essay on Keats is another near miss. Able and incisive, it suffers from too much compression and occasional turgidity. In parts it seems that the critic was carried away by a desire to imitate the subject's poetry in his own prose. The content definitely suffers from...
"Our buildings are unfit for anything," he has said. "We practice education by compression."
Education by Compression
Present conditions at the School of education are "hopelessly inefficient," Keppel said. Since 1950, the School's total space facilities have increased by per cent as against a faculty-student rise of 400 per cent. "It's not so much the condition of the buildings we're concerned about, it...