Word: shorthand
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...McCann read this draft to the President in his hospital room. Ike interrupted at almost every paragraph to make changes. His secretary, Mrs. Ann Whitman, took a shorthand transcription of his ideas. Next day, with only Mrs. Whitman present, Ike spent 90 more minutes revising and rewriting the second half of the speech. McCann flew back to Washington...
...paintings exhibit the same high redundancy that television pictures do. Williams College Art Professor S. Lane Faison Jr. cautioned, however, that the very best art exhibited the least redundancy, e.g., the paintings of French Post-Impressionist Paul Cézanne, who evolved a style that was a. kind of shorthand. In Cézanne's paintings, said Faison, "whole areas of information" were eliminated: "tables, fruit . . . where the light came from, what time of day it is." Redundancy in painting, added Faison, is the very thing that Cézanne was opposing...
From the Bonn and Paris embassies, the U.S. delegation will borrow about 100 hands: stenographers and switchboard operators, code clerks and receptionists, chauffeurs and cooks. One unlisted member of the U.S. delegation will be White House Stenographer Jack Romagna, one of the fastest shorthand-writers in the world, who took notes outside F.D.R.'s bedroom during the frantic U.S. Cabinet meeting in the first crowded hours after Pearl Harbor...
...zodiac, which were invented long before "to fix the calendar and to determine the times of planting and seasons of harvest and the religious ceremonies which accompanied them." From these primitive astrological signs, the Chinese built up many of their own characters. Other civilizations apparently evolved a sort of shorthand which grew, in spite of cuneiform and hieroglyphics, into an alphabet. The very meanings of the symbols seem to bear this out. In Hebrew, for instance, the second letter of the alphabet. Beth, means "a house," or "a daughter." The second lunar symbol in Chinese means "a woman.""a daughter...
...excursions to New Mexico), devoted it to painting pictures that were not so much windows on nature as calculated explosions of sea, sun and open air. He worked fast, using as few strokes as possible, and liked to call his work "writing." It was in fact a sort of shorthand in which a few smudges might stand for breakers, a circle for the sun, and some jagged lines for a stiff nor'easter...