Word: precisionism
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Such attention to three superb writers involves slighting others equally good, and at least officially more mature. Richard Tillinghast, irrespressibly bright and in full control of his medium, makes capital out of conversation; James Tate, the Yale Younger Poet of the year, is a sharp, radiant poet with access to...
Strong as ever in the precision quality of their work but slow to innovate, the fine old German camera-making companies have seen their share of the world market slip from 55% eleven years ago to 25% last year. Last week, as shutterbugs swarmed through Cologne's ninth "Photokina...
∙MINIATURES. Rollei-Werke has developed its first precision miniature camera for standard 35-mm. film, the Rollei 35, priced just under $125. Other tiny cameras have been on the market for years, but they sacrificed quality by using miniature film. The Rollei 35 is hardly bigger than a king...
Doctors who have worked with the staplers are impressed with their uniform precision and safety even more than their time-saving abilities. The staples are bent by the instrument's grooved anvil at tolerances of two-thousandths of an inch; their tops are rounded like the letter B so...
A VOICE THROUGH A CLOUD, by Denton Welch. A man who learned to love life only when he had to leave it, Welch recounted with brilliance and precision the tragic motor accident that crippled him and the painful convalescence that only ended with his death at 33.