Word: precisionism
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The Tory rank and file, scenting Labor blood, are convinced that they can sweep the country. "Let's have a go at them," said one organizer last week. "What are we waiting for?" But the signal must come from Churchill, and last week the old man was giving a...
Precision Weapons. The Communists, he continued, persistently belittle U.S. resolution, holding up the Korean truce, the Indo-China settlement and the evacuation of the Tachen Islands as evidences of U.S. weakness. "In such ways Chinese Communist propaganda portrays the U.S. as being merely a paper tiger . . . We must always remember...
Such force consists of U.S. sea and air power, now equipped with "new and powerful weapons of precision which can utterly destroy military targets without endangering unrelated civilian centers." Any overt Chinese Communist attack probably means that the Reds "have decided on general war in Asia." In that case, the...
But in other works the kind of performance that made Debussy unforgettable was more controversial. It became apparent in Mozart's Dissonant Quartet that the Paganini members have attained refinement at the price of their own individuality. Their overwhelming sense of ensemble--with its attendant precision--robbed the music of...
In this version, Betty Grable is a musicomedy star whose songwriter husband (Jack Lemmon) is reported dead in Korea. After a suitable period of mourning, she marries her husband's partner (Gower Champion). So, of course, Lemmon turns up alive, and the fun begins. Gower glowers, Lemmon sours, and...