Word: precisionism
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It was a grimly pathetic reassurance in the face of what happened at 2319 East 100th Street last week. In an incredible, nearly soundless orgy of mutilation and murder that took place in the early hours, a single male intruder herded together and murdered, one by one, with packinghouse precision...
Tillinghast talks the sort of language that comes out of a well-fed computer. "My toughest job," he says, "is to figure out with some precision what the growth of the airline industry is going to be and then to order the right amount and kind of equipment. Profitability lies...
The play, with the exception of a dull scene about scheming capitalists, charges along at just the right sense-upsetting pace. Songs and scenes change from langorous to clanging and the ensemble acting--some--thing one doesn't see very often at Harvard--goes off with the heel-clicking precision...
Napoleonic Parallels. De Gaulle's visit began auspiciously enough with the warmest reception accorded any Western visitor in Soviet history. Seven MIG fighters locked in wingtip-to-wingtip formation escorted De Gaulle's plane to its landing. As the general deplaned in khakis and kepi, the band struck...
India represents the third major attempt of the traditional Asian mind to come to terms with the modern world. Industry has begun to change the country, "has even begun to instill a sense of time and punctuality-here and there. In the fall of every year, Hindu workmen decorate their...