Word: precisionism
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The time came at last for that most bewildering of American phenomena, the inaugural parade, a fixture that comes so naturally to a spectacle-loving public that few people ever think to question its necessity or its form. Yet there it was, with all the oomph and oompah, the crashing...
Just after dawn one morning, a group of about 100 men invaded the town of Simacota (pop. 5,000), a small farming community in the Andean foothills 225 miles northeast of Bogotá. Wearing khaki uniforms and FALN-type arm bands, the raiders attacked the police post with modern automatic...
Eliot achieved some of his strongest effects by stringing together what seem to be banalities. But the banalities were chosen with such cool precision that they grew in the mind to be images of modern urban alienation. Then, typically, they were thrown into sudden contrast with images of romance and...
Whipsawed between these episodes of mindless violence on one side and the affection and good talk of his friends on the other, Conn the cool observer is driven to the edge of despair-but also to a shocked knowledge of his unavoidable engagement with the world. Donohue tells his oddly...
ORCHESTRAL: A triumphant beginning to the Boston Symphony Prokofiev series is the big, wartime Fifth Symphony, conducted by Erich Leinsdorf. Leonard Bernstein fired up the New York Philharmonic for Liszt's Faust Symphony and cooled them down for a lapidary performance of Haydn's Symphonies 82 and 83...