Word: precisionism
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In recent years the "ritualistic" liberals (Hook's own phrase) have built up an entire martyrology of people who supposedly suffered as a result of invoking the Fifth before congressional committees. A leading exponent of this position is Harvard Law School's Dean Erwin Griswold, whose book. The...
What were the Russians up to? In a series of blustering notes, they had just warned one NATO partner after another that they would make cemeteries of their countries in case of war. Their propaganda around the world was just as relentlessly condemnatory of the U.S. as ever, just as...
In the third round, as he anxiously watched his fighter, Robinson's manager, George ("The Emperor") Gainford, noticed a Fullmer weakness: the champion was dropping his hands after taking a body blow. Before the fourth, Gainford advised Robinson to throw a right to the heart, and then follow with...
RCA, which already sells $725 million worth of electronic products annually and leads in color TV, is planning to market a noiseless electronic air conditioner, has a pilot model now in operation. A.T.&T., whose entire telephone network is one gigantic computer, is working hard on a visual phone system...
The concert concluded with the late Anton Webern's Three Songs, Opus 23 (1934), excellently sung by Sarah Jane Smith. In them Webern applied his own refined pointillism to the atonal technique of Schonberg, with dubious success. I happen still to be old-fashioned enough to think that the human...