Word: precisionism
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THE TEXAS RANGERS, by Walter Prescott Webb. A century of legalized carnage is described with scholarly precision and boyish glee in this definitive history-republished for the first time since 1935-of a rootin', tootin', shootin', lootin' and generally low-falutin' organization that enforced the...
Atlanta's Assistant Superintendent John Martin contends that kids in the course develop a new "pride in their scholarship," notes that math and science finally "begin to make sense to them." Roger Derthick, principal of Henry Grady High, calls it "a great motivating course." The FAA is so enthusiastic...
Now, Berlin's Deutsche Oper and Conductor Hermann Scherchen have brought Moses and Aaron out of the wilderness. Last week the Deutsche Oper's 318-member traveling company performed it for the first time in Rome. The staging, obviously, was an unrealistic but no less gripping realization of...
Much of the book's charm arises from the fact that the reader never quite discovers how Author Hazzard makes a small masterpiece out of such unlikely material. Partly it is because her prose is so understated that it forces the reader to become uncommonly attentive. But mostly it...
The Terriers' Wayne Ryan played in the goal during the second and third periods; he made 15 saves and shut out the Crimson. Several times Harvard had good scoring opportunities, but they lacked B.U.'s precision passing and never seriously threatened the Terriers during the last period