Word: precisionism
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THE Soviet leadership has discovered that a modern industrial society cannot be run on a subsistence economy; that it depends on a regular supply of food; that it depends on a richer supply, and cannot indefinitely operate precision machines at high speed on a diet of rye bread and pickled...
If Gilbert and Sullivan productions were supposed to approach realism, I would have to say Mr. Greene is somewhat wooden, and that Mr. Sperry reads his lines like a Sunday orator. But what Gilbert thought of as sentiment is now considered silly, and the overdone speeches fully contribute to the...
Conductor Robert Beckwith correctly limited his chorus to less than a dozen singers, thereby making possible a precision and a clarity that a large group could not achieve. The first half of the opening Taverner piece suffered from a breathy tone and general insecurity, which could doubtless have been avoided...
A smattering of junior varsity oarsmen combine with two veterans and a pair of sophomores from 1954's undefeated Yardlings to fill the boat Wilde hopes will stop Tech this Saturday. But in spite of the varsity's rag-taggle composition and Tech's veterans, stroke Larry Cabot has led...
Continuing Strike. Last week, despite the strike, a steady stream of artillery shells, precision instruments, pink washbasins and peach bathtubs flowed off the Kohler assembly lines. The company hinted that it had 3,000 men at work, as against 3,300 before the walkout, said it was operating at a...