Word: laconicism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Much of the movie is as brutally effective as a series of kicks in the solar plexus. Especially memorable: its accurately ugly talk, characterization and atmosphere, strung up to high melodramatic tension-one talent in which Hollywood still leads the world. Robert Young does modestly and well as the detective...
To take Collado's place the Bank picked a McCloy man, Eugene R. Black, 48, lean, laconic vice president of Manhattan's big Chase National Bank, who has recently returned from a two-month study of European credits. (His appointment is the only one that must be confirmed...
In barricaded Jerusalem last week a Briton, about to move into a requisitioned Jewish house, found a laconic note left for him: "My house-your castle." It was a pithy oversimplification of the whole Palestine issue. Last week Britain, unable to work out a division of Palestine's living...
The specter of World War III was conjured up by writer after writer on the atomic bomb, notably John Hersey in the laconic, harrowing Hiroshima; and also by the New Yorker's E. B. White in his earnest tract, The Wild Flag; by Sumner Welles in Where Are We...
By means of spotters directing the defense from second story stations throughout the University Hall area, and the unbending line of the reserves under the command of Sergeant John Twomy, the Yale charge was quickly converted into "a pleasant song feast" according to Randall's laconic summation.