Word: precisionism
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A stump speech need not make sense or state an argument lucidly. Such precision would detract from its real purpose--to excite the uneducated and impress upon them the identification of the speaker with "traditional values." The phrases must pour forth in magnificent thunder, roll like waves across the audience...
Linked Molecules. The new color film can be used in most Polaroid cameras, but it depends on new chemicals, designed to work with the precision of molecular machines. There are three layers of emulsion containing fine, light-sensitive grains of silver halide. The grains in the top layer are sensitive...
Good French singers are as rare as good French boxers, but Crespin is the grand exception. Born in Marseille in 1927, she made her debut at the Paris Opera at 24 in Lohengrin, and the German repertory has been her forte ever since. Audiences at Bayreuth and Vienna have been...
A year later Love just missed qualifying for the Olympics, but he still had, for two more years, the services of Perry Boyden, one of Harvard's finest strokes and one of the few oarsmen Love ever singled out. Even after Boyden's graduation, Harvard remained immensely feared simply because...
In his senior year Herbert lived alone. He wrote his honors thesis. Only now did he come to realize how much precision was demanded of the man who would express himself as befits a scholar, and how onerous were the burdens of composition. First, there was the matter of terminology...