Word: thought-out
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...shock which must be prepared for in advance. For example, Standard Oil Co. (Ohio) starts preparing its men five years ahead of their retirement by explaining what income they will receive from pensions and Social Security, talking over what hobbies they might like to start, etc. Without a carefully thought-out program for retirement, many a man literally dies of boredom...
...compelling, tightly-kit Suite for two pianos by Edward Rickard, 1G, ended the program. While thoroughly at home in the musical language of America today, as examplified by Barber and Copland, Mr. Rickard avoids being merely imitative. His musical ideas are original and he expresses them in a carefully thought-out, effective manner. The Suite contains a wealth of ingenious rhythmic and structural patterns, yet their variety never endangers the unity of the work as a whole. The deeply-felt final adagio--rising to a loftier, more intense level of expression than any of the other movements--seemed...
...early Kandinskys, such as Light Form, were fresh and fructifying as spring thundershowers. Scores of lesser abstractionists sprouted under their spell. Kandinsky called his first, free-wheeling abstractions "improvisations." Subsequent, elaborately thought-out paintings such as Le Bon Contact and One Center he called "compositions...
...Peter Arno puts it in his introduction to his collection (1926-51), "Ladies and Gentlemen." "Harold Ross, in starting the "New Yorker" cost out the stale joke, the pun, the he-and-she formula. . . . In their place developed . . . a humor related to everyday life; believable, based on carefully thought-out, integrated situations...
...President is carefully briefed on the questions likely to be asked; sometimes a planted question is given to a friendly reporter, to draw out something the President wants to say. Sometimes correspondents help by telephoning their questions ahead. (Their excuse: this is the only way to get a thought-out answer from slow-thinking Harry Truman, who might otherwise muff a complicated question thrown at him suddenly.) And the President is not above giving reporters a misleading answer to sticky questions if he thinks he can get away with...