Word: precisionism
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New Target. Thus the independent Fed is sure to come under heavy White House prodding to pump out enough money to bring interest rates down again. The Federal Reserve governors have already taken one step to resist such pressure. In recent months the board adopted a new operating method to...
To be sure, the "present result" lacks the literary cadences of The New English Bible and the translator's precision of the American Bible Society's Good News for Modern Man. It may be just a shade too enthusiastic in its use of exclamation points ("Then he heard...
A company release later quoted him as saying: "After close to 15 years of editing at the top level of the magazine, I feel a strong need to get away from the unrelenting day-to-day pressures of the job." Lansner's new duties were defined with something less...
In one sense, in a French contex, La Tour was a magnificent vindication of provincial art. His style could hardly be further from the grand authoritarian rhetoric of Louis XIV. "No great painter ever refused more than Georges de La Tour," remarks Art Historian Jacques Thuillier. "There was never a...
Typically, the stories in Dr. Brodie's Report are characterized by their brevity, precision, and subtlety of style. Borges has always claimed that he cannot write long fiction, and furthermore that he sees no reason to go on for hundreds of pages conveying a situation which can be concentrated into...