Word: precisionism
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What keeps the whole collection from descending to the merely pathological is an undercurrent of compassion and a ruthless economy of phrase that never slashes when it can slice and never slices when it can probe. None of the stories has a surplus word or a spare character. In every...
Every time that money-saving Defense Secretary Louis Johnson bragged that he had cut only fat, not muscle, he had to disregard the accusing stares of Marine aviators. In his new budget he had ordered a halving of the Marine Corps' precision-trained aviation forces, cutting them from 23...
"Keep Moving." Standout attraction of the fair was the Russian exhibit. The biggest building of all, it was surmounted by a gilded Byzantine tower topped by a giant red star. Russian music boomed through the hall as the East Germans gaped at the huge display: freight cars, trucks, tractors, radios...
Precision Tools. There Sherman became an on-the-ground leader in the cold war, learned the uses of naval forces as "the precision tools of diplomacy." He flung 80 planes over Italy at election time. His ships visited North African ports, dropped in at Naples, Trieste and Athens. Sherman took...
Though Arthur Godfrey believes, as did Mark Twain, that half the art of American humor consists in keeping your face straight, he scores heavily with the precision mugging of his Huck Finn features. He is a master of the mildly distasteful grimace, the quizzical brow, the shrug of simulated incomprehension...