Word: precisionism
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Precision or Abstraction. In his one-sitting paintings, mostly landscapes and seascapes done on Cape Cod, Dickinson is especially versatile at catching the highlights of a moment. He can do a cottage window that is both precise and geometrical, yet seems about to reveal some intriguing mystery. A seascape may...
The machine precision of Kennedy's political strategy gave Columnist Doris Fleeson a sudden chill. "Efficiently, almost coldly," she wrote, "President-elect Kennedy and his new team of intellectuals, investment bankers, management experts and bright young men are taking over their Washington assignments. But it is already clear that...
It is astonishingly difficult to measure this influence with any precision. Personally, Bundy has impressed most of those who have talked to him in his curiously uncomfortable office in University 5 with his evident air of competence, his brilliance and originality, and his capacity to impose on even the most...
"Tempting Thievery." Instead of bold new ideas and personal diplomacy. Dean Rusk plans to bring to the foreign relations of the U.S. thoroughgoing staff work, precision and forethought. He believes that precision is needed to forestall miscalculation by enemies and friends. While he was a student in Germany in the...
THE TRIAL BEGINS, by Abram Tertz. Smuggled out of Russia, author unknown, this short novel moves with surgical precision through the surrealist world of Soviet prison camps and the larger reservation that is Communist society. At one end of the spectrum stands the conditioned Soviet organization man, at the other...