Word: precisionism
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It took staying power and icy nerve, as well as muscle and precision. The first day, under dismal rain, he had sweated through the 100-meter dash, broad jump, shotput, high jump, and 400-meter run. He failed to place first in a single event that day (though he tied...
Now & again this is a touching little story; but ultimately it is wrecked by Miller's longtime habit of trying to hang too heavy a meaning on too slender a frame. The virtues of economy and precision seem to have dawned on the author too late. Henry Miller'...
Dr. Kubie stuck a scalpel into the heart of Zoologist Alfred C. Kinsey's whole project: the interviews. Kinsey and his coworkers, he said, give human memory a precision it does not have; "they recognize that we can 'forget,' but not that we can 'misremember.'...
Haganah officers who had served with the British in the Jewish Brigade in World War II listened grimly to familiar British commands, given in a cool, clipped English voice, over the Arab communication net. With a deadly precision in sharp contrast to the inefficiency of Arab volunteers, the Arab Legion...
The Scum. Top specimen of social scum is Adrien de Pontillac, French aristocrat and Vichyite ruler of Marseille. His instincts refined to a delicate dimension of amorality, De Pontillac is one of the lovely brutes who classifies women by zoological categories, and has made indifference to other people into an...