Word: precisionism
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Yasunari Kawabata is probably best known in the West for his novels Snow Country (1956) and Thousand Cranes (1959). Which is to say that this most Japanese of Japanese writers remains somewhat obscure to Western readers despite his 1968 Nobel Prize for Literature. His fiction seems to be most valued...
The language the Albers use, straight lines and geometric figures arranged with such machine-like precision that evidence of the artist's hand is almost totally effaced, would threaten to create a world so cerebral and austere that it would seem to be sterile were it not for the extraordinary...
The favorites turned out to be a powerful Dutch team and the Poles, a surprise contender. The Dutch, with soccer's finest player, Johan Cruyff, struggled through some ragged early games, but by last week they were attacking with precision. The Polish team, which upset England in the elimination...
Josiah Bunting, a former Rhodes scholar, taught history at West Point until he resigned a major's commission to become president of Briarcliff, a small college for women on New York's Hudson River. He plots Mark Adams' unsentimental education with the synchronized precision of a military...
How much bad-mouthing must a policeman take before arresting the name-caller? The Supreme Court has ruled that states could ban verbal cop-baiting only if it involved "fighting words" likely to provoke a breach of the peace. But last week the court again made clear that no matter...