Word: succinctly
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...generally impalpable and major truths is a genuine but essentially minor talent. He has a gift for the theatricality of nothing happening, for small sudden changes of key, for the humor of despair. For all its vernacular and even outhouse touches, his is an artificial and sophisticated style, a succinct loquacity. At bottom, Godot is both a neatly fingered exercise in wit and a pointillist rendering of humanity's dark-forest moods. But its very neatness gives it rather a symbolic rat-tat-rat than something that reverberantly makes great gashes and rents. Beckett's method dispenses with...
...little group of willful men now in power in Washington. They have called Harry S. Truman a traitor. Now, because of my association with him, they are calling me a crook . . . I shall recommend that people in high places should read the Bill of Rights." Caudle was more succinct. Wailed he: "I never did anything but good...
...That succinct sentence summed up the views of the ired Harvard team, which by Friday was in New York. No one knows how Meigs felt, but the rest of the team was pretty vocal to writers. The Crimson claimed that the Big Red deliberately ran no plays at Meigs the whole game, and therefore he had little chance to show his true prowess...
...reacted angrily. The President phoned the Pentagon from New England, got the-details, and declared through his press secretary: "The attack on our plane was inexplicable and unwarranted." Secretary of State Dulles took it up with Molotov in an interview that Dulles' aides called "businesslike and succinct...
...Last month, when Fulton Lewis got ready for his first visit to Spain, he looked forward to a royal welcome and an exclusive interview with Franco. He was not disappointed by the welcome. The day before his arrival last week, Madrid's daily Ya said: "Fulton Lewis, the succinct and factual American journalist, tomorrow arrives in Madrid . . . If you encounter him in your walks you should take off your hat to him. There are not many newspapermen in the world who merit more this unique and supreme gesture of Spanish courtesy." Next day the newspaper headlined his arrival...