Word: precisionism
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The curious death of Jan Vermeer der Delft has in some part, been responsible for recent arguments about his works. A popular young painter, it was his misfortune to have lived in Delft in a studio near the site of a powder magazine. This, one disastrous day in 1675, exploded...
The Love Mart. Incredibly enough, the villain of this picture suspects the heroine, whose skin is as white as her well-bleached character, of being an octoroon. The only reasonable basis for such a suspicion is found in the fact that she lives in New Orleans in the days when...
Inside the box were electro-magnetic fields, actuated (through radio vacuum tubes) by an electric current that alternated at stupendously rapid frequencies. The alternations, as is the case with radio broadcasting waves, were too rapid for human ears to hear. But Professor Theremin, as anyone can do with a heterodyne...
While Mr. Vare sat truculent and Mr. Smith looked strained, Senator Norris of Nebraska recited their histories with icy precision.* Then Senator Borah affirmed the Senate power to judge them. Senator Borah argued, however, that before judgement was passed, the Senate must recognize the culprits' credentials from their states...
Dr. Bridges' verse, in truth, is, perhaps, a little top "highbrow" for the general public. Moreover, its prosody treats of stresses and not syllables. Nevertheless, his verse is recognized for its restraint, purity, precision and strength.