Word: precisionism
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Druid Wanted. Phil Burton, now director of the Musical and Dramatic Theater Academy of America (in Manhattan), trained Richard with some novel devices. He made him talk on five telephones at once, doing a scene from a play about a busy bank manager who could hold five separate conversations, darting...
The city's news dealers figure with some precision that the absence of 5,700,000 papers a day for more than 15 weeks cost them $11 million. At least 30 blind dealers have been forced to go on relief. Other retail merchants can only guess what the strike...
Voltaire and the Calas Case, by Edna Nixon. With precision and power, the author brings to life a moment in French history when the aging Voltaire came from retirement to rouse all Europe against French persecution of the Huguenots.
Minnesota manager Sam Mele did no trading during the winter recess, and with good reason: he has a well-balanced young ball team that could bring home a pennant any year now. His infield, a question mark last year because of its youth, has had a year to work together...
All this is part of Le Corbusier's belief that no fancy surfacing, decorative covering, or even the sense of precision imposed by modern machinery, has been allowed to hide the fact that architecture through the ages is as much the work of the hand as of the head...