Word: precisionism
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With a cool precision not always seen on its flights, Braniff in a matter of hours called in its 75 aircraft, canceled all flights, fired nearly 9,000 employees and threw a police guard around its lavish $70 million headquarters building at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport. Flight 501 was on...
In the opinion of many strategic analysts, however, Weinberger was at least hyperbolic. They maintain that only the most advanced Soviet missiles approach the targeting precision of the 550 U.S. Minuteman IIIs.
There is nothing new under the sun at the Harvard Semitic Museum. When President Bok and 300 backers of the museum gathered at Divinity Avenue three Sundays ago to celebrate its long-awaited opening to the public, they were re-enacting, with almost uncanny precision, an event that had taken...
Critics now assail "bilingualism" as expensive, impractical and unAmerican. None are more eloquent-or surprising-than Richard Rodriguez. A Mexican American by birth who trained as a scholar of Renaissance literature, Rodriguez, 36, is a writer of rare precision and grace. His new book, Hunger of Memory (Godine; $13.95), is...
Leonard Slatkin. 37, of the St. Louis Symphony. The leader of this first-class orchestra comes by his music loving naturally. Growing up in Los Angeles, Slatkin heard his violinist father and cellist mother play chamber music regularly as half of the Hollywood String Quartet. Slatkin on the podium maintains...