Word: curtness
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...normally keeps dozens of new deals going at once. His independence gives him a competitive edge over rivals, who must go through strict management channels. Once, while spending a weekend relaxing aboard his company's 85-ft. yacht, the Curt-C, Carlson heard a Milwaukee promotion company that produces inflight shopping catalogues was for sale. He bought the firm within two days...
Kingston. R.I.--The big story had flown in on wings of newsprint early yesterday morning. It was curt, but resounding with hope--Penn had lost a doubleheader to Army the day before and the Harvard baseball team, with its 3-3 Eastern League record, was back in contention for a second straight league title...
...Governors did not take very kindly to Brown. When the Californian made a rhetorical pitch for a balanced budget as "the central issue of our time," Vermont's flinty Republican Governor Richard Snelling snapped back a curt reminder that the Governors' group had had a committee studying that very topic over the past year, that Brown was a member of the committee but had never attended its meetings, that he had not even answered Snelling's letter seeking views on which specific federal programs the states would like to see slashed. Said Snelling: "I think the born...
...right back up," he recalls. "My second blew one rear leg almost off, but he still get back up. He was trying to get up again after my third shot. I had to hit him with a fourth to put him down." Asked how he got his deer, Curt Morse, 26, of Union Township, laughs. "You want to know the truth? I was sitting in the car eating my lunch when this deer just walked right up to us. I just got out of the car and shot...
Nostalgia presents a single poetic vision and a choir of translators. They are not of equal worth. Robert Bly makes Voznesensky sound like Robert Bly, all curt stanzas and quick vignettes. Ginsberg jettisons the author's rhymes for some ungainly free verse. The best work is the least obtrusive: working with Voznesensky's supple and difficult lines, Max Hayward, Vera Dunham and William Jay Smith have given the Russian, both man and language, a new voice...