Word: precisionism
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Dick wrote a long Crimson piece that fall entitled "In Defense of Terrorism." In it be extended a theoretical analysis of the CFIA as a necessary link in the chain of American Imperialism to a political statement that the CFIA ought to be destroyed. That second claim, the call to...
The man next to Bill Bonanno on the morning commuter flight from San Francisco to Los Angeles wanted to talk football. Why not? The day before, the Colts had defeated the Cowboys in the Super Bowl. At 38, Bill-tall, his excess pounds disguised by gray pin stripes-looked much...
Fans of Mission: Impossible or The Great Escape could best appreciate the precision planning and bold execution of the Joel Kaplan caper (TIME, Aug. 30). Consider the facts: an American serving a murder sentence in Mexico was plucked from behind the walls of a heavily guarded prison, transferred to a...
Painstaking Precautions. The Camden raid was carried off with such devastating precision that one defense attorney termed it "not an arrest, but an ambush." Coupled with the arrest of five alleged conspirators in Buffalo, N.Y., it may have broken the spine of the Berrigan-centered segment of the antiwar movement...
GRAMMAR. "I am a linguistic pessimist. Unguided, our language will degenerate into more and more debilitating imprecision. I hold that for every instance of evolution toward precision there are three cases of devolution into sloppiness . . . Grammar and syntax can teach one how to make words behave, not just correctly, but...