Word: laconicism
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"We are made to live for others. But one really dies only for oneself." The author of this journal entry was 46 and world famous when he was killed in a car crash south of Paris on Jan. 4, 1960. Within this short life, Albert Camus had won the 1957...
The austerity of that approach gives the books something of the quality of redwoods -- lofty, solid monuments invested with an almost classical presence. They can also seem unbendingly solemn. "I like to think I have a merry side," he says, almost wistfully, and in conversation he certainly talks often of...
Readers went to Cooper not for his sociology but for his hero, Natty Bumppo, better known by his nicknames: Deerslayer, Hawkeye, Pathfinder, Leatherstocking. Here was a new myth for a new world, a character whose prowess would suit him for Homer or the Round Table, scouting the shores of the...
"I AM HAUNTED BY WATERS," Norman Maclean wrote at the end of A River Runs Through It, his memoir-novella about growing up in Montana in the early years of this century. The phrase is both appropriate and curious: appropriate because his little story (104 pages) is mostly about standing...
The British philosopher Bertrand Russell said in the 1950s that the Australians' laconic mode of living could "point the way to a happier destiny for man throughout the centuries to come." Australians may finally be developing the sort of culture that could match Russell's utopian vision. They are waking...