Word: precisionism
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Bernard Goldfine was back in his Boston, and his friend Sherman Adams was still at his White House desk-but by no means was all right with their world last week. With slow-moving precision, Arkansas' Oren Harris got his House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight to vote a unanimous...
The Bystander is a slick novel, but its precision can't quite make up for the fact that a few things in this world do transpire outside the double-bed. The most effective scene is Anthony's gambling; the least effective are Anthony's introspective monologues. Some of the descriptive...
Neatly spaced amid the welter of bulldozers, cranes and sweating U.S. marines on Yellow Beach north of Beirut, Lebanon last week stood five green and white umbrellas boldly emblazoned SEVEN-UP. The umbrellas each sheltered a friendly Lebanese vendor with an iced soft-drink box packed with Seven-Up. They...
Milestone: the Eisenhower Doctrine. The U.S. offered to go to the aid of any Middle Eastern nation-at that nation's request-to help it beat out attack or subversion by Communist or other outside powers. In historic testimony before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, the then Chairman...
The musicians clearly had to spend most of their rehearsal time on this exceedingly difficult work. The effort was worth it, for the performance was one of amazing vigor and precision.