Word: laconicism
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At 10:28 Ike stepped forward, the center of attention for Mamie, his son John in dress blues, and his four grandchildren, including 13-month-old Mary Jean (whom Ike had rescued from an upstairs room to come down to see the ceremony). Another Eisenhower guest was retired Navy Captain...
We do not wish to suggest that we have become laconic since its lamentable disappearance early Saturday morning for we are steadfast in our belief that we are the oldest college comics in America. But it has, you see, taken just a bit of the edge off our care-free...
The Bold and the Brave (RKO Radio) is a war picture as laconic and perceptive as a good reconnaissance report. It tells of a battle in a sergeant's soul, of the lives it cost, of victory lost by a kind of courage and won by a kind of...
Personalizing Peter's Pence. In the lead story, Dawn, Father Udovic finds a packet of trouble in the collection plate. It is an envelope addressed to "The Pope," marked "Personal," gathered up in Father Udovic's campaign "to personalize Peter's Pence" by having the bishop, who...
"My World Was Tiny." In The Collected Stories, the bulk of his too little-known work is fully translated for the first time and prefaced with a perceptive introduction by Critic Lionel Trilling. Like another Eastern Jewish writer, Sholom Aleichem, Babel was a folk artist of the ghetto. To Aleichem...