Word: precisionism
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THE assorted objects against a cool sea painted on this week's cover by Artist Aaron Bohrod are familiar symbols of the oceanographer's trade. The brownish-pink PGR (Precision Graphic Record), from which the portrait emerges, is used to make a portrait of the ocean floor. The...
Lyttleton and Bondi challenge physicists to devise experiments that can measure the charges of protons and electrons with new precision. If the charges prove to differ, the difference will explain both the expanding universe and cosmic rays.
"Cover Eleanor." "All I ever demanded was results," Bach recalls, "and I got 'em." One reason was Teacher Bach's skill at spotting hungry boys with talent, most of them Depression kids with a drive to make good. For them, Bach's first aim was finding a...
A vital key to Lewis Strauss's character is a perfectionism that still seems to nag him at an age when he might have become more mellowed. It shows in the studied elegance of his tailoring, in a precision of speech that comes natural to him from long habit...
In second place among the publications, almost three-fifths of the College students read Henry R. Luce's Time, and more than a third also look at his Life. Though some students violently criticize these two magazines--for their tendency to transform current events into a modern morality play, and...