Word: laconicism
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One of Charles de Gaulle's favorite maxims is that "power does not retreat" -by which he means that his government does not hesitate to take tough decisions. But last week, enmeshed in a showdown struggle with Antoine Pinay, the economic miracle worker of France's Fifth Republic...
Threni is really a series of canonic passages, generally sung by soloists, punctuated by choral enunciations of the Hebrew letters that divide the text. The letters are short, frequently no more that a bar, and gentle, in the manner of Orpheus and the Sonata for two pianos. The considerable body...
The scene in the operating theater of Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital was typical of the best in U.S. medicine. Carefully scrubbed surgeons and nurses in sterile caps, masks, gowns and gloves glided around the table with smooth efficiency. The senior scrub nurse knew the senior surgeon'...
Return of the Pros. The Los Angeles Dodgers had moved in an aura of Hollywood make-believe all season long. Too many experiments were working out too well. Brought up from Spokane, a gutty little Negro shortstop named Maury Wills turned into a fielding flash. Pulled off the bench, boyish...
Banned by the court from discussion of the trial, Turkey's press last week dutifully made no direct reference to it. But in the newsmagazine Akis, which bitterly opposes the heavy-handed regime of Turkish Premier Adnan Menderes, there appeared, under the title "Ugly American," a feature story illustrated...