Word: laconicism
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Home showed soon enough who was running the Foreign Office. He impressed its clannish professionals with his industry and quick grasp of issues, delighted many others with his laconic wit. When an aide sent him a bale of documents with the note, "The Secretary of State will be interested in...
More Ways than One. By now, New York's newspaper publishers are understandably laconic; they would rather not give out circulation and ad revenue figures. But available evidence suggests that, nearly six months after the strike's end, Manhattan's dailies are still paying for it in...
Is this a portrait of youthful existence in Italy? It seems unlikely. As a case history, the trials of Enrica are both too relentless and too bizarre to be convincing-even though they are recounted with a grimly detailed, laconic realism that echoes the style of her mentor, Novelist Alberto...
The Message. In Katmandu, officials cursed bad weather that had blacked out communications with the U.S. climbers. Where were they? Were they safe? Had they reached the summit? Suddenly, the radio crackled. The message was laconic: at exactly 8 a.m. (Greenwich Time) on May 1, two men-an American and...
This first Broadway production suggests the stature of the play without fully measuring up to it. Anne Bancroft is more often the folksy Bronx matriarch than the flinty earth mother. Straining for Brechtian detachment, Director Jerome Robbins achieves a kind of laconic toughness in which the actors hold back, rather...