Word: laconicism
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But the laconic Parker may have painted too desolate a picture. Senior captain and Porcellian prexy Gordie Gardiner, returning to the stroke position after a year at number two, and other third-year men Warren Perkins, at number two, and Paul Templeton at the bow, should provide a sound nucleus...
This may sound doom-laden, but the plays are redeemed by irrepressible freshets of surreal humor. Buried Child, now at off-Broadway's Theater de Lys, concerns itself with a zany Illinois farm family. Dodge (Richard Hamilton), the grandfather, is a prickly relic whose security blanket is the whisky...
The book takes place in India, where Alter grew up (although he went west for his education). The protagonist, not surprisingly a young man, comes from that hybridization of Englishmen and Hindustani that Georg Orwell described so brilliantly 35 years ago. Alter's hero feels a similar sense of class...
Perhaps there is no more consistent conservative in Congress than Texas Republican Senator John Tower, a laconic politician who uses a pithy campaign slogan, HE STANDS FOR TEXAS, and that, son, speaks for itself. On a campaign flight between Texarkana and San Antonio, Tower expressed a sense of vindication at...
If Irving Bender seems an unlikely hero, it is because he dwells in the midst of poverty-the poverty of faded tradition and of circumstance. Markus dramatizes this familiar condition with a laconic, willfully unliterary style. Her insights possess the character of aphorisms, translated into the sardonic, bantering idiom of...