Word: matter-of-fact
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...matter-of-fact soldier's prose, 70-year-old Defense Secretary George Marshall sent a progress report to his Commander in Chief. "As of tomorrow, 21 March, 1951," he wrote the President, "the strength of our armed forces will be exactly double what it was on 25 June, 1950. This has been accomplished less than nine months after the Communist aggression against the Republic of Korea." Then, with pride, he added: "For your information, the strength we have already attained . . . was not attained in World War II until more than twenty-one months after our build-up started...
...world where much is unknowable, Frost takes refuge in what is knowable, matter-of-fact and practical. "It's knowing what to do with things that counts." One of his favorite books is Robinson Crusoe : "I never tire of being shown how the limited can make snug in the limit less." For himself, Frost asks a wall against intrusion of knowledge, or people, a fence "between too much and me." What is beyond those fences, says Frost, is no man's business. It is "the canyon of Ceasing to Question What Doesn't Concern...
...difficulties and dangers (see below), many a correspondent was doing a competent job of reporting. The flood of interviews with combat-weary G.I.s, which had brought down the wrath of General MacArthur (TIME, July 24), had largely dried up. Now the cables gave a clearer, more matter-of-fact picture of the kind of guerrilla war the U.N. troops were fighting and how they were reluctantly learning the inhuman way they had to fight it (see WAR IN ASIA...
Each episode of Dragnet is "the documented drama of an actual crime" taken from the files of the Los Angeles police. Webb, who also plays matter-of-fact Police Sergeant Joe Friday, says: "We use the oldfashioned, plain way of reporting, where you don't know any more than the cops do. It makes you a cop and you unwind the story...
Hopper did not hit his stride until he was past 40, and his matter-of-fact manner of putting paint on canvas still recalls his long apprenticeship as a hack illustrator; it has no dash, humor or surface charm. But a man who has taught himself to transcribe the shapes and weathers of a real world into pictures need not charm; he convinces...