Word: laconicism
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For the first time in broadcasting history, all three networks pooled their talent on NBC's Wide Wide World last week to help TV celebrate its first decade. The result was a kind of family photograph album-a little faded, and brown with nostalgia. There was more fun than...
"Business," laconic Cal Coolidge once remarked, "will either be better or worse." In Washington last week, a divergence of opinion about the state of the U.S. economy presented the nation with an equally Delphic appraisal. Said one top Government economist: "The danger of inflation has passed and the nation is...
After 3½ hours a laconic voice announced over the loudspeaker: "As you may know, the ship has gone aground." Two tugs and a U.S. Coast Guard cutter came, tugged futilely and quit. Reporters swarmed out in small boats, were driven off by ship's officers who brandished a...
The fourth evening, as a full moon peeped over a calm sea, two tugs put towlines over the ship's sides, rocking her gently as her own windlasses tightened up on cables to outlying anchors. The Reina slid off the rocks as easily as she had slid on 84...
Leader of the calligraphists (a style that includes U.S. Painter Mark Tobey's famed "white writing" and the late Jackson Pollock's lassolike drip whirls) is German-born, French-naturalized Hans Hartung. Now considered a Frenchman by the French, who last November bought out his first one-man...