Word: precisionism
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The Affair. Faithfully adapted by Ronald Millar from the novel by C. P. Snow, this play scrupulously tracks justice through a lair of university dons. Intellectually sprightly and impeccably acted, The Affair offers playgoers the added pleasure of hearing literate English spoken with grace and precision.
In the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, where the rationality and precision of Webster do not always prevail, an issue is something around which you rouse strong feelings, upon which you evoke substantive personal commitment, and with which you get votes.
There are other strange things about Cornell. Its band marches in straight columns and drills with precision. And they are big on canoes at Lake Cayuga.
Serge Koussevitzky played on the Boston with Slavic ardor, kindling it to its best efforts in Russian works or in the epic grandeurs of Beethoven and Sibelius. Charles Munch tuned its voice to the French composers, infusing it with a certain Gallic grace. Leinsdorf, 50, is Viennese-born but internationally...
V. Wickwar of Harvard took the first pictures of the royal burial chamber. The underground structures were discovered in 1853 by Spiegelthal, the German consul at Smyrna. Since then the tunnels leading to them have become clogged with earth and a dangerous fall of rubble has completely covered one chamber...