Word: laconicism
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By now he was back on his old-brick patio for lunch, and his wife Margaret, a good-looking woman he calls Boo, joined them. Kirbo, a devout member of the Christian Church, dropped his head and said grace. With his large hands and deep, soft voice, he seemed a...
Laconic Anticlimax. Her moment of truth with HUAC forms the heart of this slim memoir, Hellman's first-and long-anticipated-public word on her brush with McCarthyism. Two earlier autobiographical volumes, An Unfinished Woman (1969) and Pentimento (1973), ignored this subject. Yet when the crucial scene in Scoundrel...
"I stand by the court's decision," said Scoop Jackson, but he would not go much further. "It's O.K.," was the laconic and unenthusiastic response of Jimmy Carter. Only Mo Udall came out foursquare for the court. "It's a good decision and I support it...
Cockroach Milk. When Russia burst triumphantly into literary history in the 19th century, it was hardly surprising that most of her great writers were steeped in folklore. "Each one is a poem!" said Pushkin, who, like Gogol, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, used folk tales as vital elements in his work. The...
Little clues-the neatness with which the noose was tied, an error in the cost of secondhand motorcycles-slowly indicate the dead man's connection with a drug ring. Respected citizens become criminal suspects, while the true murderer seems guilty only of an act of reason. In the end...