Word: precisionism
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Louis Lyons shaped the program into this fraternal institution; Dwight E. Sargent, his successor as Curator and editor of Nieman Reports, has made few changes. Sargent is a tightlipped, businesslike man, a different type entirely from his extroverted predecessor. A Nieman Fellow in 1950-51, he is a graduate of...
THE EVENING OF THE HOLIDAY, by Shirley Hazzard. A young novelist has chosen her words with such delicacy and precision that even the trite theme of a holiday affair between an inhibited, not-so-young Englishwoman and a smooth, not-so-young Italian architect has become a haunting and poetic...
THE EVENING OF THE HOLIDAY, by Shirley Hazzard. Because she writes with delicacy and precision and never succumbs to the obvious, Author Hazzard has produced a haunting and near-perfect first novel about the brief affair in Italy of two not-so-young, not-so-passionate lovers.
THE TEXAS RANGERS, by Walter Prescott Webb. A century of legalized carnage is described with scholarly precision and boyish glee in this definitive history-re-published for the first time since 1935-of a rootin', tootin', shootin', lootin' and generally low-falutin' organization that enforced...
Parrot's first goal with a minute to play in the opening period was the best example of the precision play of all three lines and their dominance over Dartmouth's weak defense.