Word: laconicism
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Novelists are often the worst judges of their own intentions, and Polish-born Anna Langfus is no exception. In The Lost Shore, she explains, she was aiming at a bestseller in the manner of Françoise Sagan. What she achieved was a novel simple and laconic in manner but...
Sickness unto Death. A proud and laconic man, Leamas is outraged by such chatter. Gruffly he shakes off the question and takes the job. Dutifully he deteriorates in public: getting himself fired from his position in London, drinking heavily, finally brawling his way into a term in jail-all to...
The girl who effects this contrast is a British actress with dark red hair, a smile that could win a war or at least make one worth losing, and "a light in her eye"-as one London critic rhapsodized-"which would melt the heart of a gun dog." At the...
Unlike most U.S. companies, Pennsylvania's conservative Bethlehem Steel had no compulsory retirement program, and its last chief executive served into his 80s. Almost casually last week, Bethlehem's Chairman and Chief Executive Arthur Bartlett Homer remarked to reporters that a program had been worked out-and that...
No Kidding. Ah, but Yogi was smarter than the average bear. While he was getting yuks, Yankee pitchers were getting the sign and the team was winning pennants-ten under Casey Stengel, three straight under laconic Ralph Houk. For fun and profit, Yogi built a bowling alley in Clifton, N.J...