Word: precisionism
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Governor Roosevelt did not define his character with equal precision, did not say who he was, where he lived, what he did. When Alfred Emanuel Smith first beheld Mr. Roosevelt's tactics he cried "Demagog!" at his old friend "Frank," hotly declared he would "take off my coat & vest and...
Mr. Eliot is here chiefly concerned with the sanity and breadth of Dryden's genius, and the influence of those qualities of the poet on English poetry from his day to our own. In the first essay of the book he says: "It was Dryden who for the first time...
If you will but Bear with me a while, oh my disciples, I will reveal to you the scores of this afternoon's most important games. But first let me refer you back to the uncanny precision of my prophecies of last week. True it is that I forecast Harvard...
Aside from the epistemological photography of which Clair is a master, the swaggering, lilting, scurrying action of the plot perambulates the great problem of Society in the Machine Age. The prison and the factory, could any one mistake that parallel? Yet this is a parody that parodies itself. Nothing is...
A famed Republican cartoonist who has not participated in this year's campaign because of illness is John Tinney McCutcheon of the Chicago Tribune. In his stead the Tribune's editorial policies have been faithfully illustrated by Carey Cassius Orr. The Orr cartoons, many of them telling complete...