Word: precisionism
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At the heart of the crisis is Latin, the language of the Mass and the language of the council. In exquisite Latin, some prelates have been arguing for the introduction of the vernacular, while others-such as Cardinal Mclntyre of Los Angeles-have in halting Latin painfully defended the ancient...
Unlike most Western orchestras, the Leningrad under permanent Conductor Eugene Mravinsky seems to strive less for a blend of orchestral sound than for a contrast of one orchestral section with another-slightly thick woodwinds, say, against blazingly powerful brasses. The orchestra's special glory is its string section, which...
But Lodge wanted to be a reporter, not a novelist, and the precision so important to fiction writing helped him in journalism. "Fiction writing is the hardest work I know," he says, and adds, pointing to a copy of his new book, Spearheads of Democracy: Labor in the Developing Countries...
The Band show, which was seen by more than a million persons on CBS television, was devoted to great comedy acts of the year. The Prize for the friendliest performance went to Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev for their recent love affair. Dartmouth's musicians contented themselves with a rather...
While U.S. business is busily investing abroad, a French industrial giant last week launched an invasion of the U.S. Out to acquire a controlling 40% interest in New York's Howe Sound Co., France's Pechiney, the biggest aluminum producer in Europe, offered to buy up to 1...