Word: laconicism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In Chevalier's 7,000-word translation, the phrase "as complicated as a Rube Goldberg invention" became "more complicated than existentialism." A "hoot-nanny" emerged as a corrida (i.e., bullfight). Rose's untranslatable "razzle-dazzle and razzmatazz" was altered into the equally untranslatable "plaisanter sur des plaisanteries plaisantes...
A Fourth Estate. In a way, Killian will be an odd sort of president for M.I.T. He is neither a scientist nor an engineer, and he never earned a Ph.D. He is a quiet, competent man, who got his bachelor's degree in business and engineering administration. To support...
Charles Wesley Plaisted turned out to be an alert, laconic, genial gentleman who has no idea how he got to be 100 years old. Nor does he attribute his longevity to anything whatsoever. "If you stay well, you don't make any count of the years," he said. "I...
Such an uneasy fugitive from catastrophe is Shmul Weinstock, hero of London physician Alex Comfort's tight little novel, On This Side Nothing. In dry, sparse sentences Weinstock tells the story of his return to his native North African city the night before its ghetto is cordoned off by...
Russia's Andrei Gromyko, Soviet U.N. spokesman for more than two years, waved goodbye to Manhattan, sailed for home. To the press he was as laconic as ever. Was he happy to be going home? "Yes, I am glad . . ." Did he expect to come back? "I hope not." What...