Word: precisionism
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It is none of Burger's doing that the court is today regarded by so many disinherited Americans as the last resort, and perhaps it ought not to be. The Chief Justice appears to feel that state and lower federal courts should deal with narrow issues, while the larger social...
Here was the essence of the intellect in action, which the Supreme Court alone among U.S. institutions is capable of supplying. With carefully written precision Justices Black and Harlan provoked and inspired others, on and off the court, to better thinking about law and American democracy. As the court began...
Proust criticism remains more a matter of saturation than of precision. He still gets praised a little abstractly as a technical innovator, a man who ran time present and time past on dual tracks and played with memory like a zoom lens. Read today, Proust gives curiously old-fashioned satisfaction...
Rembrandt, and his gifted student Ferdinand Bol, evidence the skill of the Dutch in graphics and printmaking. With precision and clarity of lines, cross-hatching to illustrate the play of light among the characters, these two Netherlandish artists evoke the spirit and personality of Blind Tobit and of Woman in...
Nor are the French to be slighted when it comes to printmaking. Nicolas Poussin, Edouard Manet, and Ingres point out the diversity of techniques within any nation of artists. Ingres, a noted draftsman, excels even the Dutch in precision of detail. Poussin still tells classic and mythological narratives (The Infant...