Word: laconicism
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Anyone who has seen Ragtime knows there is no finer singer on Broadway than McDonald. A 28-year-old Juilliard School graduate who opted for musical comedy over grand opera, she has a tangy, beautifully focused soprano voice and an intensely evocative way with words. She could make a toothpaste...
For Yang and Filo, it's been a strange ride. Filo, a shy, laconic man who radiates intense smarts, remembers when he could visit every site on the World Wide Web in a couple of hours. That was in early '94, when the Web was young, and Jerry, his more...
The murky conclusion to McCarthy's epic contrasts unfavorably with the clarity of his cowboys' laconic dialogue ("Pass the salsa yonder") and terse fatalism ("When things are gone they're gone"). On the other hand there is something unfashionably noble in McCarthy's uncompromising passion to land the big one...
When I tell relatives and friends that teaching high school biology is one of my career aspirations after my four years at Harvard, I inevitably receive the universal response, "That's great," almost immediately followed by, "We need better teachers, we need more teachers." Regardless of educational background, age or...
The setting for An Unfortunate Prairie Occurrence, the third and best of Jamie Harrison's laconic Montana mystery novels, is the small town of Blue Deer, just miles from Yellowstone National Park but far, far away from anything resembling mainstream, middle-class America. Though it's not a high-crime...