Word: laconicism
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Sainte Colombe's life is one of supreme sobriety where his only pleasure comes from exploring the boundaries of his grief. At times he can be a wickedly brutal father as when he locks his daughters in a cellar. Yet his daughters see their father as a hero making their...
Set among the amputees and other casualties of war, in fact, the novel becomes a tender examination of fairness and forgiveness. The "Americans" come to seem as inscrutable as the Japanese, as clannish and as sparing with their feelings. And the divisions between the two are only intensified by their...
In the Tennessee Country (Knopf; 226 pages; $21) by Peter Taylor, the writer of shrewd, laconic short stories whose previous novel won the Pulitzer Prize, revels in such delineations. He writes of a society grounded in family and memory of the Civil War. Nathan's father was named for Confederate...
Watergate, a five-hour documentary series produced for the BBC by Norma Percy (The Second Russian Revolution), narrated by former CBS and CNN correspondent Daniel Schorr and airing next week on the Discovery Channel, is a refresher course that shouldn't be missed. Lucid and laconic, unsparing but never sanctimonious...
This sea chant, repated at the story's climax, typifies Norman's highly personal approach to fiction. His story is extravagant melodrama, but his writing is strict, laconic and evocative. Birds, coves, proper names. Odd sources of enchantment, but real ones.