Word: precisionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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And it is not sufficient. Saturday night's performance of the "Eroica," the Overture Number Three to Leonora, and Copland's suite for ballet, Appalachian Spring, showed both the prime virtues and the great defects of the performances at Symphony Hall. Aside from the magnificent discipline and precision of the...
The enormity of the case, the nauseating precision of its bestial details, were almost too much for the mechanism of British legal procedure. But the mechanism worked. The five British officers on the bench, and the learned judge advocate in grey wig and black robe, were dry-voiced and calm...
He ticks off the day's conferences, which always include an hour's long-distance call to Detroit, with metronomic precision.
The invasion proceeded with machine-like precision. Transport planes floated down on the airstrips at four-minute intervals. U.S. and British battleships, cruisers and destroyers marched in stately file through the treacherous Uraga Channel into Tokyo Bay. It was almost too smooth. Said a dry Britisher, watching Brigadier General William...
After Pearl Harbor, both Spalding and Wilson turned their precision machinery to the manufacture of small arms and tank helmets. They had gone on making some sports equipment, but the military had snapped up almost 80% of it. Last week, with all arms contracts canceled, the first dribble of postwar...