Word: succinct
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...fresh that it creates a visual suspense in the very act of clarification. Once the camera takes a 350-degree turn round the ballroom at George's home-for-the-holidays party, darting in to pick up revealing scraps of conversation, moving, probing, giving the narrative subtle, succinct meaning...
...JAPANESE ENEMY-Hugh Byas- Knopf ($1.25). A succinct and highly intelligent account of the Japanese people and the Japanese state, with an analysis of their master military plan...
...toothy Major General Charles L. Scott, who looked too brittle to ride the Armored Corps's mechanical monsters. Patton enjoys bouncing around in tanks, was usually far out in front during last fall's maneuvers in the Carolinas. His bellows to his men on maneuvers were always succinct. Once he asked a private what he was shooting at. "A concealed machine gun," the private said. "Goddammit," exploded Patton, "That's not a machine gun. It's a dirty Nazi bastard...
...General Cunningham's fame is young: last spring he drove 1,500 miles from Kenya, through Italian Somaliland and the Ethiopian desert right to Addis Ababa, reaching the capital faster than other British columns with far shorter distances to go. His name is almost always bracketed with his succinct Order of the Day before that march: "Hit them. Hit them hard and hit them again...
...thousand men of Harvard will shorten their already brief and succinct apasma of cheering this fall in the throes of the Crimson's flashing in triumph...